cekik

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (schwa-variety) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈkek/ [t͡ʃəˈkeʔ]
    • Rhymes: -keʔ, -eʔ
  • (Baku) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈkik/ [t͡ʃəˈkiʔ]
    • Rhymes: -kiʔ, -iʔ
  • Hyphenation: ce‧kik

Verb

cekik (Jawi spelling چکيق, active mencekik, third-person passive dicekik)

  1. (transitive) to strangle.
  2. (intransitive) to choke.

Derived terms

Affixations
  • cekikan (“stranglehold; the act of strangling”)
  • dicekik (“strangled;choked”)
  • pencekik (“strangler”)
  • tercekik (“to be choking (accidentally) or to be strangled unintentionally”)
Idioms
  • mencekik darah (“ to charge an exorbitant price; to extort money”)

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: cekik (inherited)
  • → North Moluccan Malay: ceké

Further reading

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