serikat
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Malay serikat, from Classical Malay شريكت (syarikat), سريكت (serikat), from Arabic شَرِكَة (šarika). Doublet of syarikat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈri.kat/, [səˈri.kat̪̚]
- Hyphenation: sê‧ri‧kat
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -at
Noun
sêrikat (plural serikat-serikat)
- union, association, league
- Synonyms: persekutuan, perkumpulan
- Amerika Serikat ― United States of America (literally, “The Union of America”)
- partnership, company
- Synonyms: persekutuan, perseroan
- ally, confederate
Derived terms
- berserikat
- menyerikati
- menyerikatkan
- perserikatan
- Amerika Serikat
- serikat buruh
- serikat mahasiswa
- serikat pekerja
Further reading
- “serikat” 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.
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic شَرِكَة (šarika). Doublet of syarikat and sarekat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈrikat/ [səˈri.kat̪̚]
Noun
serikat (Jawi spelling سريکت, plural serikat-serikat)
- union, association, league
- Synonyms: persekutuan, pertubuhan, perkumpulan
- partnership, company
- Synonym: perkongsian
- shared earnings collected between husband and wife
Usage notes
- Mostly displaced by syarikat in Malay Peninsula and Singapore, although proper Indonesian nouns with it still preserved in literature there.
References
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “سريکت sĕrikat”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 383
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “sĕrikat”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 452