ꦱꦭꦃ

Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese salah (“changing; deviating; wrong, mistaken; missed, escaped”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq. Doublet of ꦱꦭ (sala).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.lah/
• Rhymes: -lah
• Hyphenation: sa‧lah

Adjective

ꦱꦭꦃ (salah)

1. wrong

Derived terms

• ꦏꦱꦭꦲꦤ꧀ (kasalahan)
• ꦚꦭꦲꦏꦺ (nyalahaké)
• ꦚꦭꦲꦶ (nyalahi)

 

Further reading

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “salah”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN