wajib
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).
Noun
wajib (plural wajibs)
- (Islam) A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.
Adjective
wajib (not comparable)
- (Islam) A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.
- 2004, Norman Calder; Jawid Mojaddedi; Andrew Rippin, Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 169:
- Further, that bounties are wajib, so revealed obligations are wajib. These cannot be known except through a prophet. So the existence of prophets is wajib, for that without which a binding duty (wajib) cannot be completed is itself wajib.
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Synonyms
- fard
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay wajib, from Classical Malay wajib, from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwad͡ʒɪp/
- Rhymes: -d͡ʒɪp, -ɪp, -p
- Hyphenation: wa‧jib
Verb
wajib
- to oblige.
- Synonym: harus
- (law) shall
Affixed terms
- berkewajiban
- berwajib
- diwajibkan
- kewajiban
- mewajibkan
- sewajibnya
- wajib belajar
- wajib kerja
- wajib lapor
- wajib latihan kerja
- wajib militer
- wajib pajak
- wajib pajak takbayar
- wajib serah
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
- “wajib” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Tausug
Adjective
wajib
- obligatory, compulsory
Yakan
Adjective
wajib
- good, right
- obligatory