miring

English

Verb

miring

1. present participle and gerund of mire

Anagrams

• MRIing, riming

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay miring.

• The sense of cursive or italic scripts are semantic loan from Chinese 斜體／斜体 (xiétǐ, “italics, slanting script”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmirɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: mi‧ring
• Rhymes: -irɪŋ

Adjective

miring

1. inclined, oblique

   Synonym: landai

   Antonym: datar

2. tilted

   Synonym: condong

3. cursive, italic

   Synonyms: kursif, italik

4. (figurative) crazy

   Synonyms: gila, sinting

5. (figurative) cheap

   Synonym: murah

Synonyms

• mereng
• senget

Derived terms

• kemiringan
• memiringkan

Noun

miring (plural miring-miring)

1. a freak person, an oddball

Verb

miring

1. to incline
2. to slope

Conjugation

Conjugation of miring (meng-, intransitive)

root	miring
	active	involuntary	passive	basic / imperative	emphatic / jussive
active	memiring	termiring	dimiring	miring	miringlah
locative	memiringi	termiringi	dimiringi	miringi	miringilah
causative / applicative1	memiringkan	termiringkan	dimiringkan	miringkan	miringkanlah
	causative
active	mempermiring	terpermiring	dipermiring	permiring	permiringlah
locative	mempermiringi	terpermiringi	dipermiringi	permiringi	permiringilah
causative / applicative1	mempermiringkan	terpermiringkan	dipermiringkan	permiringkan	permiringkanlah

¹ The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
The verb form termiring rather means as a superlative (paling, ...) instead of an accidental, but still means as accidentals in transitivized forms (causative, locative, benefactive, and its combinations).
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Further reading

• “miring” 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.