sauvinisme

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch chauvinisme, from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. Reconstructed as sauvinis +‎ -isme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sauviˈnɪsmə]
• Hyphenation: sau‧vi‧nis‧mê

Noun

sauvinisme (first-person possessive sauvinismeku, second-person possessive sauvinismemu, third-person possessive sauvinismenya)

1. (politics) chauvinism

Alternative forms

• chauvinisme (unadapted borrowing)
• cauvinisme (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• sauvinis

 

Further reading

• “sauvinisme” 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.