Kebenaran
/kə.bəˈna.ran/noun
The state or quality of being true, correct, or in accordance with reality.
Did you know?Kebenaran is formed with Indonesian ke-…-an, a circumfix that turns the adjective *benar* (“true” or “correct”) into an abstract noun—roughly “truthfulness” or “the condition of being true.”
Etymological Timeline
Early Malayic
Malayic
*bənar
“Reconstructed ancestral form associated with being true, correct, or right; the reconstruction and its precise deeper origin are debated.”
Old Javanese period
Old Javanese
bĕnĕr
“True, correct, or straight; a closely related regional form.”
Classical Malay
Malay
benar
“True, genuine, correct, or right.”
19th Century
Malay
kebenaran
“Truth, correctness, or the quality of being true, formed from ke-…-an plus *benar*.”
Modern English usage
Indonesian
kebenaran
“Truth, reality, justice, or correctness, depending on context.”