pengadilan
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Affixed adil + peng- -an. The sense of (law) court is reinforced by semantic loan from Japanese 法院 (hōin) and Dutch gerecht.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pêngadilan (plural pengadilan-pengadilan, first-person possessive pengadilanku, second-person possessive pengadilanmu, third-person possessive pengadilannya)
- (law) court:
- Synonyms: mahkamah, meja hijau
- the administration of law.
- the persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- the session of a judicial assembly.
- the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- (law) judgment, judgement: the act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
Compounds edit
Further reading edit
- “pengadilan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.