sanggah

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋga (“to support”). Doublet of sangga.

• IPA^(key): /saŋɡah/
• Hyphenation: sang‧gah

sanggah (Balinese script ᬲᬗ᭄ᬕᬄ)

1. (Hinduism) family shrine in the Balinese house-complex.

• → Indonesian: sanggah

• “sanggah” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋɡah/ [ˈsaŋ.ɡah]
• Rhymes: -aŋɡah
• Syllabification: sang‧gah

Inherited from Malay sanggah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋgaq (“to arrest the progress of something by stopping or catching it; to support, keep from falling”).

sanggah (active menyanggah, passive disanggah)

1. to deny, to become denial against; to rebut

   Synonym: sangkal

2. to challenge, to oppose

   Synonym: lawan

3. to protest against

   Synonym: keluh

4. to have a different opinion; to object to

Borrowed from Balinese sanggah (“altar”, literally “seat, throne”).

sanggah (plural sanggah-sanggah)

1. (Hinduism) family shrine in a Balinese house-complex

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*saŋgaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “sanggah” 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.