mahkota

From Malay mahkota (compare Javanese ꦩꦏꦸꦛ (makutha)), from Pali makuṭa, from a Dravidian term (compare Tamil முகடு (mukaṭu), Sanskrit मुकुट (mukuṭa, “crown”)).

• IPA^(key): /mahˈkota/
• Rhymes: -ta, -a
• Hyphenation: mah‧ko‧ta

mahkota (plural mahkota-mahkota, first-person possessive mahkotaku, second-person possessive mahkotamu, third-person possessive mahkotanya)

1. crown:
   1. (literal) diadem: a royal, imperial or princely headdress.
   2. (metonymically) king: the sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

      Synonym: raja

   3. imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
2. (figurative) treasure
3. (botany) ellipsis of mahkota bunga (“petal, corolla”).

• makota

• “mahkota” 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.

Borrowed from Pali makuṭa, from a Dravidian term (compare modern Tamil முகடு (mukaṭu), Sanskrit मुकुट (mukuṭa, “crown”)).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /mah.ko.tə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /mah.ko.ta/
• Rhymes: -otə, -tə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -ta

mahkota (Jawi spelling مهکوتا, plural mahkota-mahkota, informal 1st possessive mahkotaku, 2nd possessive mahkotamu, 3rd possessive mahkotanya)

1. crown (royal headdress)

• "mahkota" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “mahkota” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.