canggih
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay canggih (“talking too much”). All “sophisticated” senses is a semantic loan from English sophisticated. The sense complicated in technology was Coined by Indonesian politician Herman Johannes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃaŋ.ɡih/
- Hyphenation: cang‧gih
- Rhymes: -ɡih, -ih
Adjective
canggih (comparative lebih canggih, superlative paling canggih)
- sophisticated
- complicated, especially of complex technology
- having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan
- Synonym: berpengalaman
- appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral
- Synonym: intelektual
- (obsolete) tending to talk a lot; talkative
- disruptive
- Synonym: ribut
Derived terms
- kecanggihan
- mencanggihkan
- pencanggihan
- secanggih
Further reading
- “canggih” 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.