begal

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦒꦭ꧀ (bégal).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɡal/ [ˈbe.ɡal]
• Rhymes: -eɡal
• Syllabification: be‧gal

Noun

bêgal (plural begal-begal)

1. street robber

Verb

bêgal

1. to rob
2. to hijack

Derived terms

• begal-begalan
• membegal
• pembegal
• pembegalan

References

• Alan M. Stevens; A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings (2010), A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary‎, second edition, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 107
• “begal”, 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