patokan

Betawi

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦛꦺꦴꦏꦤ꧀ (pathokan, “pole, benchmark”). By surface analysis, patok +‎ -an.

Noun

patokan

  1. pole
    Synonyms: patok, cagak, pal
  2. benchmark (standard by which something is evaluated or measured)
  3. landmark (natural or man-made feature used for navigation)

Etymology 2

From patok (“to peck”) +‎ -an.

Noun

patokan

  1. peck (an act of striking with a beak)

Further reading

  • Chaer, A. (2009) [1976] “patokan”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 339
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.