adopsi

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch adoptie, from Middle French adoption, from Latin adoptiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈadɔp̚si]
  • Hyphenation: adop‧si

Noun

adopsi (first-person possessive adopsiku, second-person possessive adopsimu, third-person possessive adopsinya)

  1. adoption:
    1. acceptance: the choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so.
      Synonym: penerimaan
    2. the state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

Derived terms

  • adopsi antarnegara
  • adopsi ilegal

Further reading

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