rakyat

Borrowed from Malay rakyat.

rakyat (plural rakyats)

1. (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) An ordinary citizen.
2. (Malaysia) The people or citizens of a country, as a collective.

• ra'jat (obsolete, pre-1942)
• rakjat (obsolete, 1942-1947, 1947–1972)

From Malay rakyat, from Classical Malay رعيت (“people”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya). As the pronunciation of final ⟨k⟩ is ambiguous for many speakers of Indonesian, it triggers the spelling pronunciation with a hard /k/.

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈraʔjat/ [ˈraʔ.jat̪̚]
    • Rhymes: -aʔjat
  • IPA^(key): /ˈrakjat/ [ˈrak̚.jat̪̚]

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    • Rhymes: -akjat
• Syllabification: rak‧yat

rakyat (plural rakyat-rakyat)

1. citizen, subject

   Rakjat Nippon jang melakoekan kedjahatan dihoekoem menoeroet oendang-oendang hoekoeman kriminil Dai Nippon. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. people, populace
3. (archaic) troop

   Synonym: pasukan

4. (archaic) subordinate

   Synonyms: anak buah, bawahan

rakyat (comparative lebih rakyat, superlative paling rakyat)

1. folk

   cerita rakyat Indonesia ― Indonesian folk tales

• “rakyat” 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.

• ra'ayat, raayat (dated)

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

• IPA^(key): [raʔ.jat]

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  • Rhymes: -jat, -at
• IPA^(key): [ra.ki.at]

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  • Rhymes: -iat, -at
• Hyphenation: rak‧yat

rakyat (Jawi spelling رعيت, plural rakyat-rakyat)

1. A citizen.

   Synonyms: warganegara, warga

   rakyat Jepun ― Japanese citizen

2. A subordinate or subject.
3. The people, the commonfolk.

   Bagaimanakah rakyat akan bertindak?

   How will the people react?

4. A battalion.
5. (informal, Pahang) The Orang Asli.

   Synonym: Orang Asli

• Indonesian: rakyat
• → English: rakyat

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