jaksa

Finnish

Verb

jaksa

1. inflection of jaksaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• Jaska

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay جقسا (jaksa, “judicial civil servant”), from Javanese ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ (jaksa, “prosecutor; auditor”), from Old Javanese dyakṣa, dhyakṣa, adhyakṣa (“inspector, superintendent, supervisor, guardian; highest judicial official”), from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa, “inspector, chairperson”). Doublet of adiaksa. The sense of prosecutor is a semantic loan from Dutch officier van justitie and Japanese 檢事(けんじ) (kenji).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒak̚sa]
• Rhymes: -sa, -a
• Hyphenation: jak‧sa

Noun

jaksa (plural jaksa-jaksa)

1. (law) prosecutor: a prosecuting attorney

Affixed terms

• kejaksaan

Compounds

• jaksa agung
• jaksa agung muda
• jaksa penuntut umum
• jaksa tinggi

Descendants

• → Min Nan: 若卅

Further reading

• “jaksa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

jaksa

1. romanization of ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ