Word.ws English Dictionary

mukim

mukim noun: a level of administrative division used in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Singapore.

Noun

mukim (plural mukims)

  1. A level of administrative division used in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Singapore.

mukim meaning in Malay and Indonesian

mukim in Malay

level of administrative division
mukim

mukim in Indonesian

level of administrative division
mukim

Forms of mukim

pluralmukims

Origin of mukim

Borrowed from Malay mukim, from Arabic مُقِيم (muqīm, “resident”).

Questions about mukim

What does mukim mean?
Mukim means a level of administrative division used in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Singapore.
What is mukim in Malay?
Mukim in Malay is mukim. See Mukim meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is mukim?
Mukim is a noun.
What is the plural of mukim?
The plural of mukim is mukims.

Words near mukim in the dictionary

  1. mukhiyas
  2. mukhtar
  3. mukhtars
  4. mukhwas
  5. Mukilteo
  6. mukim
  7. mukimo
  8. mukims
  9. mukkutti
  10. muklek
  11. mukleks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mukim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mukim.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mukim. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.