jadi

• jaadi

jadi (uncountable)

1. (Asia) Pickled fish.

• DJIA

jadi

1. become, come about, reach a successful conclusion.

   Festival Hutan Hujan Sedunia (RWMF) ke-13 dipenyadika malam hari empat digulu 20 ra­ban pemusik enggau 200 iku pengarang berita ari serata dunya.

   The 13th edition of the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) came about on Thursday night where 20 musicians and 200 news reporters from around the world assembled.

• Richards, Anthony. An Iban-English Dictionary, Volume 1 Clarendon Press. 1981.
• Bisi 20 raban pemusik dunya datai enggau RWMF ke-13 The Borneo Post. 10 July 2010.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒadi/ [ˈd͡ʒa.di]
• Rhymes: -adi
• Syllabification: ja‧di

Unknown.

• From Malay jadi, from Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “birth”) or जात (jāta, “become”). Doublet of jata, jati, and jelata.
• From Malay jadi, from Proto-Malayic *ɟadi, *maka-ɟadi (“become, for, to”). Cognate with Malagasy zary.

jadi

1. so (in order that, for that reason)

jadi (active menjadi)

1. to become (to come into being)
2. to be
   • 2025 July 24, Kompas.id‎^[1]:

     Harsh Vardhan Jain (47) ditangkap polisi karena melancarkan penipuan dengan berpura-pura menjadi diplomat.

     Harsh Vardhan Jain (47) was arrested by the police for carrying out fraud by pretending to be a diplomat.

3. to succeed

   Synonym: berhasil

4. to be completed

   Synonym: diselesaikan

5. (stative) to be ready for use

   Synonym: siap

From Arabic اَلْجَدْي (al-jady, “young goat, Capricorn”).

Jadi

1. (astrology, astronomy) Capricorn

   Synonyms: Kaprikornus, Makara

• “jadi” 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.

Unknown

• From Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “birth”). Doublet of jati and jelata.
• Or probably cognate with Old Javanese dadi (“to become”) (compare Javanese ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi)).^[1]
• From Proto-Malayic *ɟadi. Cognate with Malagasy zary.

• IPA^(key): /dʒa.di/
• Rhymes: -adi, -di, -i

jadi (Jawi spelling جادي, used in the form menjadi)

1. to become (to begin to be)

   Dia akan menjadi seorang guru

   She will become a teacher

2. (grammar) so (in order that, for that reason)

   Beri saya wang, jadi saya dapat membeli sebuah buku komik

   Give me money, so I can buy a comic

   Dia mahukan sebuah buku, jadi dia pergi ke perpustakaan

   He wanted a book, so he went to the library

• Indonesian: jadi
• → Tagalog: yari ?

• "jadi" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “jadi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Arabic جَدّ (jadd, literally “grandfather”).

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jadi class IX (plural jadi class X)

1. tradition
2. lineage, ancestry, genealogy

From Malay jadi, from Sanskrit जाति (jāti).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒa.d̪i/

jadi

1. so, therefore

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [hʷaɾ̠i]

jadi

1. white clay

• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 191: “jadi”
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 51: “fade”