kaidah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kaidah (Standard Malay kaédah), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʕida).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kaˈidah]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧i‧dah

Noun

kaidah (plural kaidah-kaidah)

  1. rule:
    1. (biology, chemistry, economics, linguistics, physics) a regulation, law, guideline
    2. (mathematics) a determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result
  2. (medicine) method
  3. (philosophy) maxim

Alternative forms

Synonyms

  • (biology): aturan
  • (mathematical rule): petua (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

  • berkaidah
  • mengaidahkan
  • pengaidahan

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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