tekan
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tekan (invariable)
- (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts).
- 2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:
- We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated
- 2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:
- When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully).
- 2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60:
- It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan.
Anagrams
[edit]Gothic
[edit]Romanization
[edit]tēkan
- Romanization of 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽
Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay tekan, from Proto-Malayic *təkən, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tekan (active menekan, passive ditekan, involuntary/perfective passive tertekan)
- to press
Derived terms
[edit]Affixed terms
Further reading
[edit]- “tekan” 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 Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”). Cognate with Tagalog tikin (“a bamboo pole for propelling boats in shallow streams”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tekan (Jawi spelling تکن)
- press
- Tekan butang tu, cepat!
- Quick, press the button!
- pressurise, pressure
- Cik Farid ditekankan untuk menandatangani kontrak tersebut.
- Mr. Farid was pressurised into signing the contract.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tekan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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