percit
Latin
Verb
percit
- third-person singular present active indicative of perciō
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pe(R)cit (“squeeze, squirt out”). Cognate with Hanunoo pusít (“spurt, spurting, as of blood”) and Gela posi (“squeeze out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pərt͡ʃit/
- Rhymes: -ərt͡ʃit, -t͡ʃit, -it
Verb
percit (Jawi spelling ڤرچيت)
- (intransitive) to spurt out; to gush out
- Synonym: pancut
- Banyak darah memercit dari luka itu.
- A lot of blood spurted out from that wound.
- (transitive) to squirt out; to squeeze out
- Synonym: percik
- Memercit sos ― To squeeze out sauce
Derived terms
- dipercit
- dipercitkan
- memercit
- memercitkan
- pemercitan
- terpercit
Descendants
- Indonesian: percit
Further reading
- “percit” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *pe(R)cit