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pidana.

crime: a specific act committed in violation of the law

6 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/piˈdana/
  1. crime: a specific act committed in violation of the law

  2. punishment, penalty, sanction

  3. conviction

Where this word comes from

From Javanese ꦥꦶꦢꦤ (pidana, “court punishment”), from Old Javanese pīḍana (“pressing or squeezing; of oppressing, paining, afflicting”), from Sanskrit पीडन (pīḍana, “press, suppress”). Semantic loan from Dutch strafrecht (“criminal law”, literally “punishment law”) as Dutch straf (“punishment, penalty, sanction”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.