tegar

Borrowing from Esperanto tegi and Latin tegere.

• IPA^(key): /teˈɡar/

tegar (present tense tegas, past tense tegis, future tense tegos, imperative tegez, conditional tegus)

1. (transitive) to cover (a bed, a piece of furniture, etc.)
2. (transitive) to caparison

• tegilo (“cover (for bed, etc.), horse cloth, caparison”)
• tegotelo (“cloth cover; tarpaulin”)

Inherited from Malay tegar, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₂guur, *t₂gar (“straight, upright”)

• IPA^(key): /tə.ˈɡar/
• Rhymes: -ɡar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: tê‧gar

têgar (comparative lebih tegar, superlative paling tegar)

1. stiff-dry

   Synonym: keras

2. rigid, inflexible, unyielding

   Synonyms: kaku, keras

3. obstinate, stubborn
4. determined

   Synonym: tabah

5. robust:
   1. (systems engineering) designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage
   2. (software engineering) resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions

têgar

1. (imperative) to harden, to stiffen

• “tegar” 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.

tegar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of tegō

tegar

1. indefinite plural of teg

• Greta, tager