tawakal
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tawakal, from Arabic تَوَكَّلَ (tawakkala, “to rely on, to trust”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈwakal/
- Rhymes: -kal, -al, -l
- Hyphenation: ta‧wa‧kal
Verb
tawakal
- (Islam) to rely on and trust entirely on God.
Derived terms
- bertawakal
References
- Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936
Further reading
- “tawakal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.