sekarat

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَكَرَات (sakarāt),[1] plural form of سَكْرَة (sakra, “an occasion of drunkenness, a case of intoxication, an event of inebriety”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /səˈkarat/ [səˈka.rat̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -arat
  • Syllabification: se‧ka‧rat

Adjective

sêkarat (comparative lebih sekarat, superlative paling sekarat)

  1. dying
    Synonym: nazak (Standard Malay)

References

  1. ^ Russell Jones (2007) Loan-words in Indonesian and Malay, Leiden: KITLV press, →ISBN

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