pidato

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pidato, from Minangkabau pidato,[1] probably from Old Javanese pradata (communication; explanation), likely from Sanskrit प्र- (pra-, act of) +‎ धट (dhaṭa, ordeal by the balance). Doublet of perdata. Another possible origin would be from a form related to Balinese pidarta (speech) and Old Javanese padārtha (meaning, explanation, content), from Sanskrit पदार्थ (padārtha, meaning of a word, substance).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /piˈdato/ [piˈda.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: pi‧da‧to

Noun

pidato (plural pidato-pidato)

  1. speech; public talk
    Synonym: syarahan

Affixed terms

  • berpidato
  • memidatokan
  • pemidatoan

References

  1. ^ Indonesian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Minangkabau pidato,[1] probably from Old Javanese pradata (communication; explanation), likely from Sanskrit प्र- (pra-, act of) +‎ धट (dhaṭa, ordeal by the balance). Doublet of perdata.

Another possible origin would be from a form related to Balinese pidarta (speech) and Old Javanese padārtha (meaning, explanation, content), from Sanskrit पदार्थ (padārtha, meaning of a word, substance) and later transmitted via the Betawi dialect (see Wilkinson, 1932).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈdato/ [piˈda.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato, -o
  • Hyphenation: pi‧da‧to

Noun

pidato (Jawi spelling ڤيداتو, plural pidato-pidato)

  1. (Malaysia, Indonesia) speech; public talk
    Synonyms: ceramah, syarahan

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Indonesian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “pidato”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 267

Further reading

Minangkabau

Etymology

Probably from Old Javanese pradata (communication; explanation), likely from Sanskrit प्र- (pra-, act of) +‎ धट (dhaṭa, ordeal by the balance). Another possible origin would be from a form related to Balinese pidarta (speech) and Old Javanese padārtha (meaning, explanation, content), from Sanskrit पदार्थ (padārtha, meaning of a word, substance).

Noun

pidato

  1. speech; public talk

Descendants

  • Indonesian: pidato