hikmah
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).
Noun edit
hikmah (countable and uncountable, plural hikmahs)
- (Islam) Wisdom and understanding about the divine.
- 1996, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, History of Islamic Philosophy, →ISBN, page 947:
- Therefore to study hikmah (theosophy) is to undertake a journey towards God; towards divinity; in other words, to al-Haklm
- 2013, Abdullah Sahin, New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation, →ISBN:
- Furthermore, the Qur'anic concept of hikmah, or wisdom, together with the concept of kitab, constitute the content of the Divine curriculum (kitab wa hikmah) that different historical societies were initiated into.
- 2015, Shahab Ahmed, What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic, →ISBN, page 16:
- As such, hikmah is the knowing of the idea and reality of the Universal Truth of Divine Creation; that is to say, hikmah is the knowing of the Truth of God -- as Ibn Sina wrote, it encompasses Divine Science.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay hikmah, from Classical Malay hikmah, from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma). Doublet of hikmat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hikmah (first-person possessive hikmahku, second-person possessive hikmahmu, third-person possessive hikmahnya)
- wisdom
- Synonym: kebijaksanaan
- supernatural power
- Synonym: kesaktian
- use, benefit
- Synonym: manfaat
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hikmah” 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.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).
Noun edit
hikmah (Jawi spelling حکمه, plural hikmah-hikmah, informal 1st possessive hikmahku, 2nd possessive hikmahmu, 3rd possessive hikmahnya)
Descendants edit
- Indonesian: hikmah
Further reading edit
- “hikmah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.