naskah

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay naskah, naskhah (Standard Malay naskhah), from Arabic نُسْخَة (nusḵa). Semantic loan from Dutch handschrift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnas.kah/
• Rhymes: -kah
• Hyphenation: nas‧kah

Noun

naskah (first-person possessive naskahku, second-person possessive naskahmu, third-person possessive naskahnya)

1. manuscript
   1. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

      Synonym: naskah tangan

   2. A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
2. draft: an early version of a written work.

   Synonyms: draf, rangrangan

3. script
4. codex
5. copy:
   1. (journalism) the text that is to be typeset.
   2. (journalism) the text of newspaper articles.
   3. a printed edition of a book or magazine.

Derived terms

• penaskahan
• pernaskahan

 

• naskah akademik
• naskah berita
• naskah dinas
• naskah jadi
• naskah kotor
• naskah lakon
• naskah siap cetak

 

Further reading

• “naskah” 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.