aksi

• akksi (nonstandard but fairly common)

Clipping and -si diminutive of akkumulátor (“accumulator”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒkʃi]
• Hyphenation: ak‧si
• Rhymes: -ʃi

aksi (plural aksik)

1. (colloquial) (storage) battery, storage cell, accumulator (a device used to power electric devices)

   Synonyms: akkumulátor, akku

• aksi in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• actie (1901–1947)

Borrowed from Dutch actie (compare Afrikaans aksie), from Latin āctiō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈak̚si]
• Hyphenation: ak‧si

aksi (plural aksi-aksi)

1. action:
   1. something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose

      Synonym: tindakan

   2. a way of motion or functioning

      Synonym: gerakan

   3. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
2. behaviour, manner, conduct

   Synonym: sikap

• → Malay: aksi

• “aksi” 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.

Borrowed from Dutch actie (“action”) (attested as actie,^[1] with orthographic borrowing from Indonesian aksi (“action”)), from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”), from āctus + action suffix -iō, perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Semantic loan from English action for senses other than action. Doublet of eksyen.

• IPA^(key): /aksi/
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: ak‧si

aksi (Jawi spelling اکسي, plural aksi-aksi)

1. action (something done so as to accomplish a purpose)

   Synonyms: tindakan, gerakan

2. boast, brag

   Synonym: lagak

3. cool, handsome, attractive (of clothing, behaviour)

   Synonyms: elok, bergaya

• “aksi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /aksi/, [a̠ksi], [ɑ̟ksi]

From English aks (“to ask”), now obsolete except dialectally. Compare Maroon Spirit Language aksi, Jamaican Creole aks, Krio aks.^[1]

aksi

1. to ask
   • 1874, W. Boekhoudt, Uit mijn verleden. Bijdrage tot de kennis van Suriname [From my past. Contribution to the knowledge of Suriname]‎^[1], Winschoten: J.D. van der Veen, page 95:

     Joe si boenboen kroejara soengoe, kaba joe aksi iffi mi foetoe natti.

     [Yu si bunbun kruyara sungu, kaba yu aksi efi mi futu nati.]

     You saw full well that the canoe sank, now you ask me if my feet got wet.

2. to ask, to request
   • 1950 January 23, Gerard van der Schroeff, “Einde van de koloniale voogdij. (Radiorede van de heer G. van der Schroeff) [The end of colonial tutelage. Radio address by Mr G. Van der Schroeff]”, in De West‎^[2], page 5:

     Tide mamantin, wan bigi soema kon aksi mi, iffoe mie no kan taki wan pikien sani na ini Sranang tongo, bikasi alla soema no verstan alla sani fini fini.

     [Tide mamanten, wan bigisma kon aksi mi, efu mi no kan taki wan pikin sani na ini Sranantongo, bikasi alasma no ferstan alasani finifini.]

     This morning, an elderly person came to ask me if I could say something in Sranan Tongo, because not everybody understood everything in detail.

aksi

1. question
2. request

• Aukan: aksi
• Saramaccan: hákísi

From English axe.

aksi

1. axe

• IPA^(key): /akˈsi/
• Hyphenation: ak‧si

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عكسی (aksi), from Arabic عَكْسِيّ (ʕaksiyy). By surface analysis, akis +‎ -i.

aksi

1. contrary, opposite
2. stubborn

• aksiseda (“echo”)

aksi

1. accusative singular of akis

• “aksi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu