panitia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay panitia (“committee”), from Javanese ꦥꦤꦶꦠꦾ (panitya, “committee”), from Old Javanese pa- +‎ nīti (“correct procedure; prudence; plan of action”) +‎ -a, from Sanskrit नीति (nīti, “leading; behavior; policy, ethics”).

• Displaced Dutch comité (“committee”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈnitia̯]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ni‧tia
• Rhymes: -tia̯, -ia̯, -a

Noun

panitia (first-person possessive panitiaku, second-person possessive panitiamu, third-person possessive panitianya)

1. committee

Synonyms

Indonesian:

• asosiasi
• ikatan
• komisi
• komite
• majelis
• organisasi
• partai
• perhimpunan
• persatuan
• serikat

 

Standard Malay:

• jawatankuasa
• komiti
• panitia

 

Derived terms

• kepanitiaan
• memanitiai

 

• panitia bersama
• panitia kecil
• panitia kerja
• panitia pelaksana
• panitia pembantu
• panitia pengarah
• panitia peraturan
• panitia perumus
• panitia verifikasi

 

Further reading

• “panitia” 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.