faham

English

Etymology

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Noun

faham (uncountable)

1. The leaves of an orchid (Jumellea fragrans) of the islands of Réunion and Mauritius, used in France as a substitute for Chinese tea.

Translations

leaves of Jumellea fragrans

• French: faham (fr) m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “faham”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Indonesian

Noun

faham (first-person possessive fahamku, second-person possessive fahammu, third-person possessive fahamnya)

1. Nonstandard form of paham.

Malay

Alternative forms

• paham (standard Indonesian, informal Malay)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَهْم (fahm, “understanding”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faham/
• Rhymes: -ham, -am
• Hyphenation: fa‧ham

Noun

faham (Jawi spelling فهم)

1. understanding

   Synonyms: fahaman, pengertian

2. viewpoint, opinion

   Synonyms: pendapat, pandangan

3. ideology

   Synonym: ideologi

   faham komunisme ― the ideology of communism

   faham kapitalisme ― the ideology of capitalism

Affixations

• berfaham
• berfahaman
• bersefahaman
• kesefahaman
• persefahaman
• sefaham
• sefahaman

 

Compounds

• faham kapitalis
• faham kapitalis laissez-faire
• faham komunis
• faham sosialis
• faham sosialis Marx
• faham taakul

 

Verb

faham (Jawi spelling فهم)

1. to understand

   Synonyms: fahami, mengerti, reti

Affixations

• fahami
• fahamkan
• kefahaman
• ketidakfahaman
• pemahaman

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: faham → paham
• → Urak Lawoi': ปาฮับ (pahap)

Further reading

• “faham” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.