tikung

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• tekong, tiku (nonstandard, obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tikung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tikuŋ (“curl, bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.kuŋ/, [ˈt̪i.kʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -ikuŋ
• Hyphenation: ti‧kung

Verb

tikung (active menikung, passive ditikung)

1. (intransitive) to corner (to drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space)
2. to turn:
   1. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel
   2. (transitive) to change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation
3. (transitive, figurative) to stab (to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander)

Derived terms

• tikungan

Compounds

• tukang tikung

References

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