Indonesian–English dictionary

Greenland

A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.

Grenada

An island and country in the Caribbean.

griffin

A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.

griya tawang

An apartment or suite found on an upper floor, or floors, of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious with panoramic views. [from 19th c.]

grog

An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

grogi

Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

grosir

A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.

grup

A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.

gua

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

Guangdong

A populous province of China, located on the southern coast. Capital: Guangzhou.

Guatemala

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala, a Central American country.

gubernur

(politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.

gubuk

A small wooden shed.

guci

A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.

gudang

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Guelf

(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.

Gufi

A Disney character: a slow-witted anthropomorphic dog with a goofy laugh.

gugur

To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

gugus

(astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.

Guinea

(historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.

Gujarati

The Indic language spoken in the state of Gujarat, India

guk guk

The sound a dog makes when barking; a bark.

gula

(uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

gula-gula

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

gulag

(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).

gulat

To grapple or otherwise contend with an opponent in order to throw or force them to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.

guling

A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.

gumpalan

Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

gumuk

(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.

gundik

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

gunting

(countable, usually, construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.

guntur

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

gunung api

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

gunung berapi

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

gunung es

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

gurih

Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet.

gurita

(countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.

guru

In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya. [from 17th c.]

guruh

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

Gurun Sahara

A desert in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.

gusar

(chiefly, US; informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.

gusi

(often, in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

ha

The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

habis

(transitive) To finish, terminate.

habitat

A place in which a person lives.

habituasi

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

hadapan

(by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.

hadiah

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

hadirin

A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.

hafal

(transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

hafalan

The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.

haggis

A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky.

hai

A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

haid

The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.

haiku

A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

Haiti

A country in the Caribbean. Official name: Republic of Haiti.

haji

(Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; the fifth of the five pillars of Islam.

hak

A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.

hak asasi manusia

A basic right that all humans should be guaranteed by virtue of them being a human.

hak asuh

The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

hak cipta

(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

hak kebendaan

(property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

hak milik

(property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

hak pilih

(US) The right of women to vote.

hak suara

(US) The right of women to vote.

hak veto

A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

hakikat

The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

hakim

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

hal

That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

halal

(specifically, of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

halaman

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

halaman rumput

(England, historical, or, regional) An open space between woods.

halangan

Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.

haleluya

An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.

halilintar

A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

halimun

(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

halo

A greeting used when answering the telephone.

halte

(rail) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

haluan

(nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

halus

Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.

halusinasi

A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.

ham

(uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

Hamas

A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.

hamba

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

hambatan

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

hamburan

(physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

hamburger

The patty used in such a sandwich.

hamil

(mostly, not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

hampir

Very close to, but not quite.

hampir mati

(figurative) Almost obsolete; nearing an end.

hamster

In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.

hamzah

A sign used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter (ء‎) or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif [ا‎]), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw [و‎]) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ [ى‎]). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule – the "seat of hamza rule".

Hanas

(biblical) A Jewish high priest known for having four sons and a son-in-law (Caiaphas) succeed him in his lifetime; and for cooperating with Caiaphas to have Jesus Christ crucified.

hancur lebur

To devour; to eat up

handuk

A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

hangat

Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

hangat-hangat

(temperature) Between warm and cool.

hanggar

A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.

hantam kromo

Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.

hantu

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

Hanukah

(Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.

hapus

(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)

haram

(Islam, fiqh) Forbidden by Islam: unlawful, sinful.

harap

To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

harapan

That which is expected or looked for.

hardik

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

harem

The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers. [from 1841]

harfiah

Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.

hari biasa

Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:

hari ini

On the current day or date.

hari kiamat

The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.

hari lahir

The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.

hari rabu

The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

hari selasa

The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.

hari ulang tahun

A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.

harian

quotidianly, every day

harimau

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

Harmagedon

(Christianity, Islam) Mount Megiddo, the site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.

harmonika

A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.

harpa

(music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.

harta

Something that is owned.

harum

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.

Harun

A surname transferred from the given name.

harus

Must; need to; to be urged to; to be required to; indicates obligation.

hasad

Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

hasil

That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

hasil bagi

(arithmetic) The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.

hasil cetak

Something printed on paper, usually by a printer (machine).

hasil kali

(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.

hasil pencangkokan

(horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

hasrat

Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

hasyis

The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.

hati

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.

hati nurani

(chiefly, fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

haur

(Islam) A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.

haus

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (such as fear, excitement, etc.) which stops the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane.

haus darah

Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.

Hava

A en given name.

havana

A type of large cigar produced in Cuba.

Hawa

(Abrahamism, biblical character) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.

hearts

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.

hebat

Difficult to defeat or overcome.

hekatombe

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, historical) A great public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen; also, a great number of animals reserved for such a sacrifice.

Hektor

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A Trojan hero in Homer's Iliad.

helikopter

(aircraft) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.

helium

(uncountable) The second-lightest chemical element (symbol He), with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas.

helm

(headwear) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.

Helsinki

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

hembus

(by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).

hembusan

A strong, abrupt rush of wind.