syukur

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• sukur

Etymology

From Malay syukur, from Arabic شُكْر (šukr, “thankfulness, gratitude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃukʊr/ (gratitude sense)
• IPA^(key): /ʃuˈkʊr/ (schadenfreude sense)
• Rhymes: -kʊr, -ʊr, -r
• Hyphenation: syu‧kur

Noun

syukur (plural syukur-syukur, first-person possessive syukurku, second-person possessive syukurmu, third-person possessive syukurnya)

1. thankfulness, gratitude.

Derived terms

• bersyukur
• disyukuri
• kebersyukuran
• mensyukuri
• syukuran

 

Interjection

syukur

1. An expression of gratitude.
2. (colloquial) An expression of schadenfreude.

Further reading

• “syukur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.