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Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: sya‧ri‧kat
Noun
sêrikat (first-person possessive syarikatku, second-person possessive syarikatmu, third-person possessive syarikatnya)
- Alternative spelling of serikat.
Malay
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic شَرِكَة (šarika). Doublet of serikat.
Pronunciation
Noun
syarikat (Jawi spelling شريکت, plural syarikat-syarikat, informal 1st possessive syarikatku, 2nd possessive syarikatmu, 3rd possessive syarikatnya)
- A company (legal business entity).
- Synonyms: firma, kompeni (informal), perusahaan
- (in certain proper nouns) A federation or union (of states, etc.).
- Synonyms: persekutuan, perkumpulan, gabungan
- Amerika Syarikat ― United States of America (lit. "Union of America")
- (rare) An alliance between nations (during wartime).
- Synonyms: perikatan, persekutuan
- (obsolete) society, association
- Synonyms: pertubuhan, persatuan
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References
- Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “شريكة sjarikah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 42
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “شريكة sharikat”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 434
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “sharikat”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 465
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