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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay falsafah, from Classical Malay falsafah, from Arabic فَلْسَفَات (falsafāt), فَلْسَفَة (falsafa),[1] either constructed based on فَيْلَسُوف (faylasūf, “philosopher”), or based directly on Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). Doublet of filosofi and filsafat.
Pronunciation
Noun
falsafah (first-person possessive falsafahku, second-person possessive falsafahmu, third-person possessive falsafahnya)
- philosophy: a view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
- Synonyms: filsafat, pandangan hidup
- ideology, doctrine
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic فَلْسَفَة (falsafa), either constructed based on فَيْلَسُوف (faylasūf, “philosopher”), or based directly on Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
falsafah (Jawi spelling فلسفه, plural falsafah-falsafah, informal 1st possessive falsafahku, 2nd possessive falsafahmu, 3rd possessive falsafahnya)
- philosophy (academic discipline)
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