idam

Compare to dendam. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mengidam

1. (intransitive) to want to eat, to crave

   Cepatlah masak, anak-anak kita tengah mengidam.

   Cook quickly; our kids are starving.

2. (intransitive) to crave something during pregnancy

mengidamkan

1. (transitive) to desire for, to like to have, to want

   Saya mengidamkan sebuah kereta yang baharu.

   I'd like to have a new car.

2. to dream of something

   Synonyms: impi, mimpi

idam (Jawi spelling ايدم, plural idam-idam)

1. cravings during pregnancy

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ايدم idam”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 64
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “idam”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 417

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

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اعدام (idâm), from Arabic إِعْدَام (ʔiʕdām).

• IPA^(key): /iːdam/
• Rhymes: -dɑm

idam (definite accusative idamı, plural idamlar)

1. execution (the act of killing as punishment)
   • 1939 February 14, “Japonlar”, in Aydin, page 1:

     Japonlar, adadan hiç kimsenin çıkmasına müsaade etmekte ve kaçarken yakalancakların derhal idam edileceklerini ilân etmektedirler.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• idam etmek

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “idam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اعدام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 142
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN