waham

From Arabic وَهْم (wahm, “imagination, fancy”), with possibly phono-semantic matching of Dutch waan (“delusion”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaham/ [ˈwa.ham]
• Rhymes: -aham
• Syllabification: wa‧ham

waham (plural waham-waham)

1. (psychiatry, psychology) delusion

   Synonyms: delusi, khayal

• “waham”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.xam/
• Rhymes: -axam
• Syllabification: wa‧ham

waham

1. first-person singular present of wahać