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tembak
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English
Etymology
Verb
tembak
- (Manglish) to guess the answer to a multiple-choice question
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Malay tembak, from Classical Malay tembak, from Proto-Malayic *timbak, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ti(m)bak.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtembak/ [ˈt̪em.bak̚]
- Rhymes: -embak
- Syllabification: tem‧bak
Verb
tembak (standard active menembak, nonstandard active nembak, standard reflexive passive tertembak, standard ordinary passive ditembak, standard imperative tembak, standard emphatic-jussive tembaklah)
- to shoot (to fire a shot)
- (informal) to declare one's love, to confess one's feelings to someone; to ask out
- (figurative, colloquial) to get legal document without or skip legal procedure
- to charge price at will
Derived terms
- bertembakan
- menembak
- menembaki
- menembakkan
- penembak
- penembakan
- petembak
- tembak-menembak
- tembak-tembakan
- tembakan
- tertembak
- tembak mati
- termometer tembak
Etymology 2
Semantic loan from Minangkabau tembak.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtembak/ [ˈt̪em.bak̚]
- Rhymes: -embak
- Syllabification: tem‧bak
Noun
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tembak”, 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) “*timbak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology
From timbak, from Proto-Malayic *timbak, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ti(m)bak.
Pronunciation
Verb
tembak (Jawi spelling تيمبق)
- to shoot (to fire a shot)
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