hafal

From Malay hafal, from Arabic حَافِظ, حَافَظَ (ḥāfaẓa⁩).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhafal/ [ˈha.fal]
• Rhymes: -afal
• Syllabification: ha‧fal

hafal (active menghafal, passive dihafal)

1. to memorize
2. to recite (to repeat aloud a memorized text)

• “hafal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic حَافِظ, حَافَظَ (ḥāfaẓa⁩).

• Rhymes: -al

hafal

1. to memorise, to learn by heart

From Proto-Brythonic *haβ̃al, from Proto-Celtic *samalis (“similitude, description”).

hafal (feminine singular hafal, plural hafal, not comparable, not mutable)

1. equal

   Antonym: anhafal

• hafaledd (“equality”)
• hafaliad (“equation”)
• hafalochrog (“equilateral”)

• dyfalu (“to guess”)
• efelychu (“to emulate”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hafal

1. h-prothesized form of afal