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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed sirik (“abstinence”) + -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦶꦫꦶꦏꦤ꧀ (sirikan, “something avoided”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sirikan (plural sirikan-sirikan, first-person possessive sirikanku, second-person possessive sirikanmu, third-person possessive sirikannya)
- something avoided
- Synonym: pantangan
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
sirikan
- Romanization of ꦱꦶꦫꦶꦏꦤ꧀
Old Javanese
Etymology
Affixed sirik (“to make way”) + -an.
Noun
sirikan
- a certain official of the kraton
- mahāmantri i sirikan ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Descendants
Further reading
- "sirikan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.