kejahatan
Indonesian edit
Alternative forms edit
- kedjahatan (pre-1967)
Etymology edit
Affixed jahat + ke- -an, inherited from Malay kejahatan, from Classical Malay kejahatan. The sense of crime is a semantic loan from Dutch misdrijf.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kêjahatan (plural kejahatan-kejahatan, first-person possessive kejahatanku, second-person possessive kejahatanmu, third-person possessive kejahatannya)
Usage notes edit
Whereas the noun kejahatan is constructed from jahat (bad, evil), it may be replaced with the word pelanggaran (or pelanggaran hukum), which is constructed from langgar (to crash, to violate), for more objective semantics, such as victimless crimes.
Synonyms edit
- pelanggaran hukum (Literally: violation of law)
Derived terms edit
- kejahatan administratif
- kejahatan anak
- kejahatan apartheid
- kejahatan dunia maya
- kejahatan ikutan
- kejahatan jalanan
- kejahatan kerah biru
- kejahatan kerah putih
- kejahatan komputer
- kejahatan korporasi
- kejahatan lintas batas
- kejahatan luar biasa
- kejahatan pers
- kejahatan predikat
- kejahatan siber
- kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan
Further reading edit
- “kejahatan” 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 edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
kejahatan (Jawi spelling کجاهتن, plural kejahatan-kejahatan, informal 1st possessive kejahatanku, 2nd possessive kejahatanmu, 3rd possessive kejahatannya)
Further reading edit
- “kejahatan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.