pajak

pajak

1. press, compress, cram in, beat down.

   pajaka ia ka telok dinding

   push it into the corner

   pajak! pajak! uji muai ambis sakali'

   press on! try and clear it all

   anang majakka padi alam pasu

   don't press down the padi in the pasu measure

2. persuade, urge, oblige.

   ia majakka aku meli tajau ia

   he persuaded me to buy his jar

   ia majakka aku negerja nya

   he made me do that

• Richards, Anthony. An Iban-English Dictionary, Volume 1 Clarendon Press. 1981.

• padjak (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

From Malay pajak (“rent”), from Old Javanese pajĕg (“arrangement”). Cognate of Javanese ꦥꦗꦼꦒ꧀ (pajeg, “tax”).

• The sense of tax is a semantic loan from Dutch belasting (“tax”). Replaced by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpad͡ʒaʔ/ [ˈpa.d͡ʒaʔ]
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʒaʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧jak

pajak (plural pajak-pajak)

1. tax
2. license fee

   Synonym: pak

3. shop; stall; store

   Synonyms: kedai, lepau

4. (Medan) market, (esp. a traditional one)

   Synonym: pasar

• (tax): cukai (Malaysia)

• → Balinese: ᬧᬚᭂᬕ᭄ (pajeg, “tax”) (semantic loan)
• → Min Nan: 吧灼 (pā-chiak)

• “pajak” 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.

pajak

1. nonstandard spelling of pajeg