jagal

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɡal/ [ˈd͡ʒa.ɡal]
• Rhymes: -aɡal
• Syllabification: ja‧gal

Inherited from Malay jagal (“small trader”).

jagal (plural jagal-jagal)

1. small trader

Semantic loan from Javanese ꦗꦒꦭ꧀ (jagal, “butcher”).

jagal (plural jagal-jagal)

1. butcher:
   1. (literal) a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals)
   2. (figurative) a brutal or indiscriminate killer

      Synonym: pembantai

Calque of English butcherbird.

jagal (plural jagal-jagal)

1. butcherbird (any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, family Artamidae, of Australia and New Guinea)

• “jagal” 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.

jagal

1. romanization of ꦗꦒꦭ꧀