ganyang
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦚꦁ (ganyang, “to eat (foods) raw; to crush, to stamp out”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɡaɲaŋ/ [ˈɡa.ɲaŋ]
- Rhymes: -aɲaŋ
- Syllabification: ga‧nyang
Verb
ganyang
- to eat
- to scrape
- Synonym: kikis
- (figurative) to destroy; crush; obliterate (the enemy, adversary)
- Ganyang Malaysia!
- Destroy Malaysia!
Derived terms
Affixations
- diganyang
- mengganyang
Descendants
- → Malay: ganyang
Further reading
- “ganyang”, 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
Javanese
Romanization
ganyang
- romanization of ꦒꦚꦁ