jaksa

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Finnish

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Verb

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jaksa

  1. inflection of jaksaa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay jaksa, from Javanese ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ (jaksa, prosecutor; auditor), from Old Javanese dyakṣa, dhyakṣa, adhyakṣa (inspector, superintendent, supervisor, guardian; highest judicial official), from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa, inspector, chairperson). Doublet of adiaksa. The sense of prosecutor is a semantic loan from Dutch officier van justitie and Japanese 檢事(けんじ) (kenji).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒak̚sa]
  • Rhymes: -sa, -a
  • Hyphenation: jak‧sa

Noun

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jaksa (plural jaksa-jaksa, first-person possessive jaksaku, second-person possessive jaksamu, third-person possessive jaksanya)

  1. (law) prosecutor: a prosecuting attorney.

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Compounds

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Descendants

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  • Min Nan: 若卅

Further reading

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Javanese

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Romanization

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jaksa

  1. Romanization of ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ