borgol
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Sundanese bogol (“a piece of bamboo tied to the wrists of a man in charge of the police”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbɔrɡɔl/ [ˈbɔr.ɡɔl]
- Rhymes: -ɔrɡɔl
- Syllabification: bor‧gol
Noun
borgol (plural borgol-borgol)
Synonyms
- (all senses): gari (dialectal or obsolete)
Derived terms
- memborgol
- pemborgolan (“handcuffing, the act of handcuffing”)
Descendants
- → Tetum: borgol
Verb
borgol (active memborgol, reflexive passive terborgol, ordinary passive diborgol, imperative borgol, emphatic-jussive borgollah)
- (transitive) imperative of memborgol
Further reading
- “borgol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Tetum
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian borgol.
Noun
borgol
- handcuffs
- Synonym: aljema
Further reading
- Catharina Williams-van Klinken (2015), Tetun for the justice sector, 2nd edition, Dili: Dili Institute of Technology, →ISBN