kalah

Inherited from Malay kalah, from Proto-Malayic *kalah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kalaq, which is derived from *alaq with the prefix *ka-. Doublet of alah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lah/
• Rhymes: -lah, -ah, -h
• Hyphenation: ka‧lah

kalah

1. defeated

   Synonym: (uncommon) alah

• “kalah” 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 Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alaq with prefix Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka-.

• IPA^(key): /kalah/
• Rhymes: -alah, -lah, -ah

kalah (Jawi spelling کاله)

1. defeated

• “kalah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Indonesian kalah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.l̪ah/

kalah

1. (intransitive) to lose, to be defeated

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics