berkat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay barkat, berkat, from Classical Malay berkat (“blessing”), from Arabic بَارَكَ (bāraka, “to bless, to sanction”). Doublet of berkah.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bərˈkat]
Hyphenation: bêr‧kat

Noun

bêrkat (first-person possessive berkatku, second-person possessive berkatmu, third-person possessive berkatnya)

blessing.
blessed food.

Verb

bêrkat

(colloquial) to bless, to invoke divine favor upon.

Preposition

bêrkat

(colloquial) thanks to, because of.

Derived terms

keberkatan
memberkati
pemberkatan
terberkati

Further reading

“berkat” 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.

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