tegas

Esperanto

Verb

tegas

1. present of tegi

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tegas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təgas (“clear, straightforward”). Possibly a doublet of tugas (“task, assignment”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /təˈɡas/ [t̪əˈɡas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: te‧gas

Adjective

tegas

1. clear and distinct; obvious

   Synonym: (dialectal) tandas

2. definite and certain (no hesitation, no vagueness)

Derived terms

• ketegasan
• mempertegas
• menegas
• menegaskan
• pemertegas
• penegas
• penegasan
• pertegasan

Further reading

• “tegas”, 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
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tegas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Latin

Verb

tegās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of tegō