wajib

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).

Noun

wajib (countable and uncountable, plural wajibs)

  1. (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.

Synonyms

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay wajib, from Classical Malay wajib, from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwad͡ʒib/, [ˈwa.d͡ʒɪp̚]
  • Rhymes: -ad͡ʒɪb
  • Hyphenation: wa‧jib

Adjective

wajib

  1. obligatory; mandatory

Verb

wajib

  1. to oblige.
    Synonym: harus
  2. (law) shall

Affixed terms
  • wajib belajar
  • wajib kerja
  • wajib lapor
  • wajib latihan kerja
  • wajib militer
  • wajib pajak
  • wajib pajak takbayar
  • wajib serah

References
  1. 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

Further reading

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay wajib, from Classical Malay wajib, from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).

Adjective

wajib

  1. obligatory, compulsory

Yakan

Adjective

wajib

  1. good, right
  2. obligatory
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