masalah

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /maˈsalah/ [maˈsa.lah], /masˈʔalah/ [masˈʔa.lah]
  • Rhymes: -alah
  • Syllabification: ma‧sa‧lah, mas‧a‧lah

Etymology 1

From Malay masalah, from Classical Malay مسئله (masalah), from Arabic مَسْأَلَة (masʔala).[1]

Noun

masalah (plural masalah-masalah)

  1. problem
    Synonyms: perkara, persoalan, pertanyaan, problem, tanda tanya, teka-teki
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • apa masalahnya
  • bermasalah
  • dimasalahkan
  • dipermasalahkan
  • memasalahkan
  • mempermasalahkan
  • permasalahan

Etymology 2

From Indonesian masyaallah, from Arabic مَا شَاءَ الله (mā šāʔa llāh).

Interjection

masalah

  1. (colloquial) alternative spelling of masyaallah (“mashallah, what God wills; God has willed”)

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

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مَسْأَلَة (masʔala).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [maˈsalah], [masˈʔalah], [masaˈʔalah]
  • Rhymes: -lah

Noun

masalah (Jawi spelling مسئله, plural masalah-masalah)

  1. problem
  2. thing

Descendants

  • Indonesian: masalah

Further reading

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