ensiklopedia

See also: ènsiklopèdia

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• ensiklopedi (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from English encyclopedia, from New Latin encyclopēdīa (“general education”), variant of encyclopaedīa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ənsiklopəˈdia/ [ən.sik̚.lo.pəˈdi.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: en‧sik‧lo‧pe‧di‧a

Noun

ensiklopedia (plural ensiklopedia-ensiklopedia)

1. encyclopedia (a comprehensive with on a range of topics)

Further reading

• “ensiklopedia” 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.

Ladino

Alternative forms

• ensiklopedya

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia, a false rendering of Ancient Greek ἔγκυκλος (énkuklos, “circular”) (from ἐν (en, “in”) & κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”)) & παιδεία (paideía, “education”, literally “rearing of a child”), as "an all-around education", but literally "training in a circle". The modern sense was first applied to the French Encyclopédie in the 17th century.

Noun

ensiklopedia f

1. encyclopedia; encyclopaedia
   • 2003, Sefárdica: publicación del Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí‎^[1], numbers 14-16, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí, pages 101-2:

     En esta ensiklopedia es kontado, entre otras, ke en segito a los pogromes echos en Polonia, en los anyos 1648-1649, los djudios de Turkia embezaron⁷ sovre la triste suerte de miles de djudios ke avian kayido en kativerio i ke estavan en peligro de ser vendidos komo esklavos.

     It says in this encyclopedia that, among other things, following the pogroms committed in Poland from 1648-1649, Turkey's Jews learned of the misfortune of thousands of Jews who fell into captivity and were in danger of being sold as slaves.

Malay

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin encyclopaedia (“general education”), a mistaken univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “child-rearing, education”).

Noun

ensiklopedia (Jawi spelling اينسيکلوڤيديا, plural ensiklopedia-ensiklopedia)

1. encyclopedia

   Synonym: jagat katan