indah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ (indah), from Old Javanese indah.

Adjective

indah

  1. beautiful, lovely, attractive, fine, precious

Further reading

Javanese

Alternative forms
Other scripts
Carakan ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ
Roman indah

Etymology

From Old Javanese indah.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈīn.dɑːh]
  • Hyphenation: in‧dah

Verb

indah

  1. hear, listen

Adjective

indah

  1. being different, extraordinary beauty
  • endah

Descendants
  • Banyumasan: indah
  • → Betawi: indah
  • → Indonesian: indah
  • → Malay: indah

References
  • The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015), “indah”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

Malay

Etymology

From Javanese ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ (indah), from Old Javanese indah.

Adjective

indah (Jawi spelling اينده‎)

  1. beautiful, lovely, attractive, fine, precious
    indah permai ― very beautiful

Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • pengindah (“beautifier”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
  • pengindahan (“beautification”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
  • keindahan (“beauty”) [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
  • indah-indah [reduplication] (redup)
  • seindah (“as beautiful as”) [comparability] (se-)
  • perindah (“to decorate”) [causative passive] (peR-)
  • memperindah (“to embellish”) [causative passive + agent focus] (peR- + meN-)
  • diperindah (“to be beautified”) [causative passive + patient focus] (peR- + di-)
  • indahkan (“to treat or regard as precious”) [causative benefactive] (-kan)
  • indahi [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
  • mengindahkan (“to beautify”) [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
  • diindahkan (“to be beautified”) [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
  • terindah (“the most beautiful”) [agentless action] (teR-)

Further reading

Old Javanese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈīn.dɑːh]
  • Hyphenation: in‧dah

Verb

indah

  1. hear, listen

Adjective

indah

  1. being different, extraordinary beauty
  • endah

Descendants

References
    • P.J. Zoetmulder, S.O. Robson (1982) Old Javanese-English Dictionary, Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff: “hear! listen! (in addressing gods and persons of high rank) / out of the ordinary, unusual, extraordinary, striking, astounding, extraordinarily beautiful (etc); it is amazing!”
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