jahat

Danish

Etymology

ja (“yes”) +‎ hat (“hat”)

Noun

jahat c (singular definite jahatten, plural indefinite jahatte)

1. (often ironic) An imagined hat that supposedly causes the wearer to accept a change.

   Tag din jahat på. ― Uncritically obey me. (literally, “Take on your yes-hat”)

   • 2014, Svend Brinkmann, Stå fast: Et opgør med tidens udviklingstvang, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Har man kun en jahat, bliver man offer for enhver tilskyndelse, hvad enten den kommer udefra eller indefra.

     If all one has is a yes-hat, one falls victim to any suggestion, whether it comes from without or within.

   • 2013, Lars Kjædegaard, Sorte sø, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:

     En gang imellem forekom det hende, at det mest konstruktive, det mest effektive, det mest ærlige, ville være at skide højt og flot på den professionalisme, tage jahatten af, krølle den sammen og hoppe på den og så ellers fortælle de involverede jappehoveder, at de for hendes skyld kunne gå hjem og tage gas.

     Every once in a while, it seemed to her that the most constructive, the most efficient, the most honest, would be to refrain from giving a flying fuck about that professionalism, to take off the yes-hat, crumple it, jump on it, and inform the yakkers that she would not mind if they all went home and took gas.

   • 2012, Anders Seneca, Morten Christensen, Kend din kerneopgave: Innovation til hverdag, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Hvis pjecer og jahatte kunne ændre hverdagen i innovativ retning, så ville den offentlige sektor i sig selv være arnested for massiv innovation.

     If pamphlets and blind obedience could change the everyday in an innovative direction, the public sector would in itself be an epicenter of massive innovation.

Declension

Declension of jahat

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jahat	jahatten	jahatte	jahattene
genitive	jahats	jahattens	jahattes	jahattenes

Antonyms

• nejhat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay jahat, from Classical Malay جاهت (jahat), from Old Malay [script needed] (jāhat), from Proto-Malayic *jahat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat (“bad, evil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒahat̚]
• Hyphenation: ja‧hat

Adjective

jahat

1. bad, evil
2. naughty, undisciplined
3. malicious

Derived terms

• berjahat
• kejahatan
• menjahati
• menjahatkan
• penjahat

 

Further reading

• “jahat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *jahat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat (“bad, evil”).

First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (jāhat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒa.hat/
• Rhymes: -ahat, -hat, -at

Adjective

jahat (Jawi spelling جاهت)

1. bad, evil
2. naughty, undisciplined
3. malicious

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• penjahat [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• kejahatan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• sejahat [comparability] (se-)
• menjahatkan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• menjahati [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
• berjahat [stative / habitual] (beR-)
• sejahat-jahat [reduplication + immediacy / habitual] (redup + se-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: jahat

Verb

berjahat

1. to commit evil
2. to sin

menjahati

1. to commit evil upon someone

   Jangan kau menjahati orang-orang yang lemah.

   You shall not oppress the deprived.

Noun

jahat (plural jahat-jahat, informal 1st possessive jahatku, 2nd possessive jahatmu, 3rd possessive jahatnya)

1. (dialect, Johor) a serial killer

References

• "jahat" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “jahat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Sundanese

Romanization

jahat

1. Romanization of ᮏᮠᮒ᮪