A record or narrative description of past events
English: history, account, chronicle, story
riwayatBahasa Indonesia
history, story, account, annals, chronicle
Common
#2,468 of the corpus · 45.9 per million words · 195,869 occurrences
Noun
A chronological account of events in successive years
English: annals, chronological record
Bahasa: sejarah, hikayat, babad, tambo
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A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
English: story
Bahasa: cerita, kisah, dongeng, plot
Less certain link between this word and this sense.