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ikan layaran
Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.
ikan mas
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
ikan mua
Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
ikan pari
Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.
ikan paus
Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
ikat
(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
ikat pinggang
(baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
ikhlas
Meant truly or earnestly.
ikhtisar
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
iklan
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
ikon
(religion, especially, Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
ikonik
Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
ikonis
Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
ikut campur
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
ilahi
Of or pertaining to a god.
ilham
Of a person: a source of inspiration.
ilmu
(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline. [from 18th c.]
ilmu agama
(uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general. [from mid-14th c.]
ilmu bahasa
The systematic and scholarly study of language.
ilmu bangunan
The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
ilmu bedah
(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
ilmu ekonomi
(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
ilmu faal
A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
ilmu falak
The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
ilmu hayat
The study of all life or living matter.
ilmu hitung
(uncountable, mathematics) Elementary algebra: A system for representing and manipulating unknown quantities (variables) in equations.
ilmu kebahasaan
The systematic and scholarly study of language.
ilmu kesehatan anak
(American spelling, medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of children and adolescents.
ilmu mitos
(countable, _, and, _, uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
ilmu nahu
(countable, and, uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
ilmu pengetahuan
(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline. [from 18th c.]
ilmu perbintangan
The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
ilmu purbakala
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan
(uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
ilmu ukur
(mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
ilmuwan
One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
iluminasi
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
ilusi
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
ilustrasi
A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
imajiner
(mathematics, of a number) Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of \sqrt{-1} (called imaginary unit).
imam
(usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
Imamat
The third of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible; the third book in the Torah.
iman
A religious or spiritual belief system.
imbalan
Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
imbuhan
(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.
imigran
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
impedans
(physics) A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.
impedansi
(physics) A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.
imperial
Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
imperialis
An advocate of imperialism.
imperialisme
The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
imperialistik
Of or pertaining to imperialism or imperialists; favoring imperialism.
imperium
The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
implementasi
The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
implikasi
Logical consequence.
impor
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
importir
One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.
impotensi
(medicine, pathology) The inability of a male to achieve or sustain an erection.
impresif
Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
impresionis
(art) One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism.
impromptu
With inadequate preparation or without advance thought; offhand.
imun
(medicine, usually with "to") Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
imunisasi
(US, uncountable) The process by which any organism's body develops immunity against a pathogen.
imunitas
(uncountable) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
in-
(non-productive) Used with certain words to reverse their meaning.
inang
(ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
indah
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. [from 1520s]
indekos
(in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
indeks
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
indemnitas
(insurance) A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
inden
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
indentasi
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
India
(chiefly, historical, proscribed, _, in modern use) A region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
indian
(countable) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik). [from 16th c.]
Indianapolis
The capital city of Indiana, United States and the county seat of Marion County, with which the city is consolidated.
indigesti
(pathology) A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.
indikator
A pointer or index that indicates something.
Indochina
(dated) A peninsula and geographic region of Southeast Asia, consisting of the mainland portion, not including islands such as those of Indonesia.
indoktrinasi
The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.
Indonesia
A country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of Indonesia (since 1950). Capital: Jakarta.
Indra
(Hinduism, Vedism) The god of war and weather; also the King of the Gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka in Hinduism.
induk
Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
induk jari
The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
industri
(uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
infak
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
infark
(pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
infarsi
(pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
infeksi
(pathology) The act or process of infecting.
inferensi
(uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
inflamasi
(pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
inflasi
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
infleksi
(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
influenser
(social media, marketing) A person who is able to influence consumption, lifestyle, or political preferences of their online audience by creating or engaging social media content, often as a part of a marketing campaign.
influenza
(disease) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
info
New information of interest.
informan
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
informasi
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
informatif
Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
informatika
The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.
inframerah
(uncountable) The electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation, having a wavelength between 700 nm and 1 mm.
infrastruktur
(systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. [from 1887]
infus
(medicine) The administration of liquid substances directly into a vein for medical purposes; perfusion.
ingat
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
ingatan
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
Inggris
(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
inggristis
A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
ingot
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
ingus
(informal, uncountable, sometimes, slightly, vulgar) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
inhalasi
The act of inhaling; inbreathing.
inhibisi
(chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
inhibitor
(chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
ini
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
inisialisasi
(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
inisiator
One who initiates.
injap
A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
injeksi
The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
injil
The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
inklanasi
A tendency.
inkomplet
Not complete; not finished.
inkonstitusional
Contrary to or violative of the constitution of a state or other sovereign institution. [18th C.]
inkues
A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
inkuiri
A search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation; inquest.
inkumben
The current holder of an office or title; (specifically, Christianity) the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.
insam
Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
insan
(fantasy, scifi, mythology) A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.
insektisida
A substance used to kill insects.
insentif
A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
insersi
(genetics) The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
insidental
Occurring by chance.
insinyur
Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
insisi
(historical, _, medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
inspeksi
The act of examining something, often closely.
inspirasi
(physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
Instagram
(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.
instalasi
(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
instan
Very quickly and easily prepared.
insting
A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
institusi
A custom or practice of a society or community.
instrumen
A device used to produce music.
insulin
A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).
insya Allah
(Islam) Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
intak
Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged.
intan
(uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
integrasi
The act or process of making whole or entire.
intelektual
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
intelijen
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
intens
(also, figurative) Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.
intensifikasi
The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
intensitas
The quality of being intense.
interaktif
Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.

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