warkat

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic وَرَق (waraq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /warˈkat/ [wʌɾˈkʌʰt]
• Hyphenation: war‧kat

Noun

warkát m (plural waráakit m)

1. paper
2. letter

Declension

Declension of warkát
absolutive	warkát
predicative	warkáta
subjective	warkát
genitive	warkát
Postpositioned forms l-case warkátal k-case warkátak t-case warkátat h-case warkátah

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “warkat”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay [Term?] (Standard Malay warkah), from Arabic وَرَق (waraq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwar.kat/
• Rhymes: -kat
• Hyphenation: war‧kat

Noun

warkat (plural warkat-warkat)

1. letter

   Synonym: surat

Alternative forms

• warakat
• warkah

Derived terms

• warkat berharga
• warkat pos

Further reading

• “warkat” 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.