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Indonesian
Etymology
inherited from Malay sembahyang, equivalent to sembah + hyang.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: sem‧bah‧yang
Noun
sembahyang (first-person possessive sembahyangku, second-person possessive sembahyangmu, third-person possessive sembahyangnya)
- prayer
- Synonym: doa
- A practice of communicating with one's God.
- The specific words or methods used for praying.
- worship
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Malay
Etymology
Compound of sembah (“worship”) + yang (“deity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sembahyang (Jawi spelling سمبهيڠ, plural sembahyang-sembahyang, informal 1st possessive sembahyangku, 2nd possessive sembahyangmu, 3rd possessive sembahyangnya)
- A prayer:
- (Islam) The type of prayer performed by Muslims; salat.
- Synonym: solat
Sembahyang merupakan salah satu tiang agama Islam.- Salat is one of the pillars of Islam.
- A request to God or a deity.
- Synonym: doa
Aku harapkan sembahyang aku diterima Tuhan.- I hope my prayer is accepted by God.
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Verb
sembahyang (Jawi spelling سمبهيڠ, formal form bersembahyang)
- Informal form of bersembahyang (“to pray”).
Further reading
- “sembahyang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qiang”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI