kakaktua
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Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- kakatua (nonstandard, nevertheless common)
Etymology
[edit]From Malay kakaktua, from kakak + tua (“old”) or perhaps onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kakaʔˈtua/ [ka.kaʔˈt̪u.a]
- Syllabification: ka‧kak‧tu‧a
Noun
[edit]kakaktua
- cockatoo (a bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot)
- (colloquial, by extension) parrot (any bird of the order Psittaciformes)
Noun
[edit]kakaktua
- pincers (a gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws)
Further reading
[edit]- “kakaktua” 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.
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kakak (“sister”) + tua (“old”) or onomatopoeic (kakak also meaning "to cackle, to laugh").
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /kakaʔtuə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /kakaʔtua/
Noun
[edit]kakaktua (plural kakaktua-kakaktua, informal 1st possessive kakaktuaku, 2nd possessive kakaktuamu, 3rd possessive kakaktuanya)
- cockatoo (a parrot)
- (colloquial, by extension) a parrot
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
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- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian 4-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian colloquialisms
- id:Parrots
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ua
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ua/4 syllables
- Malay compound terms
- Malay onomatopoeias
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Malay colloquialisms
- ms:Birds