kebijaksanaan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed bijaksana +‎ ke- -an, from Malay kebijaksanaan.

  • Semantic loan from Javanese ꦮꦶꦕꦏ꧀ꦱꦤ (wicaksana) for the sense of policy, introduced in The Speech of President Sukarno, 28 December 1964 and reached the peak during the Suharto administration.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəbid͡ʒaksaˈnaan/
  • Hyphenation: kê‧bi‧jak‧sa‧na‧an
  • Rhymes: -an, -n

Noun

kêbijaksanaan (plural kebijaksanaan-kebijaksanaan)

  1. wisdom
    Synonym: kearifan
  2. cleverness
    Synonyms: kepandaian, kecakapan
  3. (dated, government) policy, measure
    Synonyms: kebijakan, amanat, garis haluan, mandat, manifesto, politik; polisi (Malay)

References

  1. ^ Zulfa Sakhiyya (6 September 2021) “Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language”, in Critical Policy Studies[1], →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–16

Further reading