majusi

See also: májusi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic مَجُوسِيّ (majūsiyy, “of or related to Zoroastrians”), مَجُوس (majūs, “Magians, Zoroastrians”), from Aramaic 𐡌𐡂𐡅𐡔 (mgwš), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (maguš).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maˈd͡ʒusi/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ju‧si
  • Rhymes: -si, -i

Noun

majusi (plural majusi-majusi, first-person possessive majusiku, second-person possessive majusimu, third-person possessive majusinya)

  1. Zoroastrians

References
  1. Johnny Cheung (2017) “On the (Middle) Iranian borrowings in Qur’ānic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic”, in Arabic in Context: Celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University‎, BRILL, →DOI, →ISBN

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجُوس (majūs).

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

majusi (n class, plural majusi)

  1. astronomer
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