perkawinan
Indonesian
editEtymology
editAffixed kawin + per- -an, inherited from Malay perkahwinan.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpêrkawinan (plural perkawinan-perkawinan, first-person possessive perkawinanku, second-person possessive perkawinanmu, third-person possessive perkawinannya)
- marriage:
- the state of being married.
- a union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities; the union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
- Synonym: pernikahan
- wedding
- wedding: marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
- mating:
- (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation.
- (zoology) sexual union; copulation.
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editFurther reading
edit- “perkawinan” 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.