segan

segan

1. third-person plural present indicative of segar

From Malay segan.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈɡan/ [səˈɡan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: se‧gan

sêgan (comparative lebih segan, superlative paling segan)

1. averse, unwilling, reluctant

   Synonym: enggan

   Yang segan bertanya akan sesat di jalan.

   Those who are unwilling to ask will go astray.

2. shy, ashamed

   Gadis itu segan untuk makan dengan orang-orang yang tidak dikenalnya.

   That girl is shy to eat with people she doesn’t know.

3. showing respect (towards), deferential

   Semua murid segan kepada guru itu.

   All the students respect that teacher.

• Alan M. Stevens, A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings (2010) A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 889

• “segan” 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.

• IPA^(key): /səɡan/

segan (Jawi spelling سݢن)

1. averse, unwilling, reluctant

   Mereka segan hendak turun naik tangga mahkamah itu

   They are unwilling to go up and down the courthouse stairs

2. shy, ashamed

   Ada sesetengah ibu yang berasa segan kerana mengandung

   There are some mothers who feel ashamed from being pregnant

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

Borrowed from Latin signum.

segan m

1. sign (of the cross)
2. blessing
3. power

• Middle High German: segen
  • Bavarian: Segn
  • German: Segen
  • Luxembourgish: Segen

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014