debak

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dəbak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəbak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəˈbak/ [dəˈbaʔ]
  • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Hyphenation: de‧bak

Noun

debak (Jawi spelling دبق, plural debak-debak)

  1. thud (the sound of a dull impact)
    Synonym: lebak

References

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

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