hikayatn.
/hɪˈkʌɪjat/ In classical Malay literature, a prose narrative combining romance and biography.
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family piece1709
hikayat1808
heterobiography1825
necrology1830
life and times1866
life and works1907
photo-biography1915
hagiography1924
vie romancée1941
as-told-to1966
photo-essay1977
1808 Asiatick Researches 10 iii. 177 The Cheritra or Hikaiat..is more generally written in prose, but frequently intermixed with verse.
1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca II. xiv. 317 From Arabia and Persia, great part of that class of compositions termed Hikayet..are borrowed.
1887 H. N. van der Tuuk in Misc. Papers relating to Indo-China II. viii. 3 The Malay author says in the opening that his work..gives a great many beautiful tales in the beginning, and afterwards the tale named Hikayat Pandawa Jaya.
1894 N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 152 There are several Hikayats extant.
1900 W. E. Maxwell in W. W. Skeat Malay Magic ii. 16 This..Malay myth occurs in the ‘Sri Rama’, a Malay prose hikayat.
1964 M. Taib bin Osman in Wang Gungwu Malaysia iii. xv. 211 In the written romances, we find princes and princesses bearing hindu and muslim names, hindu gods, muslim prophets and local heroes, indigenous beliefs, hindu ethics and muslim teachings: all blended together in the hikayat or story.
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