pengadilan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed adil +‎ peng- -an. The sense of (law) court is reinforced by semantic loan from Japanese 法院(ほういん) (hōin) and Dutch gerecht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pəŋaˈdɪlan]
• Rhymes: -an, -n
• Hyphenation: pêng‧a‧dil‧an

Noun

pêngadilan (plural pengadilan-pengadilan, first-person possessive pengadilanku, second-person possessive pengadilanmu, third-person possessive pengadilannya)

1. (law) court:

   Synonyms: mahkamah, meja hijau

   1. the administration of law.
   2. the persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
   3. the session of a judicial assembly.
   4. the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
2. (law) judgment, judgement: the act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.

   Synonyms: keputusan, putusan

Compounds

• pengadilan agama
• pengadilan agung
• pengadilan anak
• pengadilan kepalilitan
• pengadilan militer
• pengadilan negeri
• pengadilan pajak
• pengadilan tata usaha negara
• pengadilan tindak pidana korupsi
• pengadilan tinggi
• pengadilan umum

 

Further reading

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