petuah

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• fatwa

Etymology

From Malay petuah, variant of petua, from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”). Doublet of fatwa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pəˈt̪uah]

Noun

petuah (first-person possessive petuahku, second-person possessive petuahmu, third-person possessive petuahnya)

1. fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

   Synonym: fatwa

2. advice from elder or pious people

Related terms

• berpetuah
• memetuahkan

Further reading

• “petuah” 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.