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Indonesian Arabic (Arabic: العربية الاندونيسية, romanized: al-‘Arabiyya al-Indūnīsiyya, Indonesian: Bahasa Arab Indonesia) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Indonesia. It is primarily spoken by people of Arab descents and by students who study Arabic at Islamic educational institutions or pesantren.
The Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI ; lit. 'Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language') is the official dictionary of the Indonesian language compiled by Language Development and Fostering Agency and published by Balai Pustaka. This dictionary is the primary reference for the standard Indonesian language because it is the most complete and ...
The official number of Arab and part-Arab descent in Indonesia was recorded since 19th century. The census of 1870 recorded a total of 12,412 Arab Indonesians (7,495 living in Java and Madura and the rest in other islands). By 1900, the total number of Arabs citizens increased to 27,399, then 44,902 by 1920, and 71,335 by 1930. [5]
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [9] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [10] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries.
Contents. List of loanwords in Indonesian. The Indonesian language has absorbed many loanwords from other languages, Sanskrit, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and other Austronesian languages. Indonesian differs from the form of Malay used in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore in a number of aspects ...
The history of the arrival of Islam in Indonesia is somewhat unclear. [1] One theory states that Islam arrived directly from Arabia as early as the 9th century, during the time of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. Another theory credits Sufi travelers for bringing Islam in the 12th or 13th century, either from Gujarat in India or from Persia. [2]
This list of Arab Indonesians includes names of figures from ethnic Arab descent, especially Hadhrami people, in Indonesia.This list also includes the names of figures who are genetically of Arab blood, both those born in the Arab World who later migrated to Indonesia (), or who were born in Indonesia with Arab-blooded parents or Arab Indonesians mix ().
The Almaany Dictionary website is an Arab project launched in 2010, with contributions from various countries including Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, and India. It employs linguists, translators, and developers from Arab regions besides the core team in Jordan. It is owned and controlled by Atef Sharaya, who has a Masters degree in Communications ...