serakah

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈrakah/ [səˈra.kah]
• Rhymes: -akah
• Syllabification: se‧ra‧kah

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay serakah, from Sanskrit [Term?]

Adjective

serakah (comparative lebih serakah, superlative paling serakah)

1. greedy

   Synonyms: loba, rakus, tamak

Derived terms

• keserakahan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese srakah (“wedding expenses”)

Noun

serakah (plural serakah-serakah)

1. wedding expenses [since 2024]

Further reading

• “serakah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016