petuah
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Malay petuah, variant of petua, from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”). Doublet of fatwa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pəˈt̪uah]
Noun
petuah (first-person possessive petuahku, second-person possessive petuahmu, third-person possessive petuahnya)
Related terms
- berpetuah
- memetuahkan
Further reading
- “petuah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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