pisau

From Malay pisau.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpisau̯]

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• Hyphenation: pi‧sau

pisau (plural pisau-pisau)

1. knife

• “pisau” 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.

pisau

1. first-person singular past of pisti

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pisaw (“kind of knife or machete”) reconstructed by Robert Blust. He included several reflexes in Oceanic languages (cf. Bola viso (“knife”) and Nakanai la-viso (“knife”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pi.sau̯/
• Rhymes: -isau̯, -sau̯, -au̯

pisau (Jawi spelling ڤيساو, plural pisau-pisau)

1. knife

• Indonesian: pisau

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

• IPA^(key): [piˈsaw]

pisau

1. third-person plural imperfect indicative of pisa