jaksa.
prosecutor: a prosecuting attorney
Meaning & usage
prosecutor: a prosecuting attorney
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay جقسا (jaksa, “judicial civil servant”), from Javanese ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ (jaksa, “prosecutor; auditor”), from Old Javanese dyakṣa, dhyakṣa, adhyakṣa (“inspector, superintendent, supervisor, guardian; highest judicial official”), from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa, “inspector, chairperson”). Doublet of adiaksa. The sense of prosecutor is a semantic loan from Dutch officier van justitie and Japanese 檢事(けんじ) (kenji).
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