patah

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay patah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pataq (“break, broken, cut through”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

patah (not comparable)

  1. broken
  2. fractured
  3. interrupted

Derived terms

  • berpatahan
  • kepatahan
  • mematah-matah
  • mematahkan
  • patahan
  • pematah
  • pematahan
  • perpatahan
  • terpatahkan
  • patah arang
  • patah batu hatinya
  • patah hati
  • patah kemudi
  • patah lidah
  • patah mayang
  • patah pucuk
  • patah riuk
  • patah selera
  • patah semangat
  • patah semangka
  • patah siku
  • patah tebu
  • patah tulang
  • patah tulang terbuka

Classifier

patah

  1. Classifier for word.
    dua patah kata ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pataq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pataq (“break, broken, cut through”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpatah/ [ˈpa.t̪ah]
    • Audio (Malaysia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -atah, -tah, -ah
  • Hyphenation: pa‧tah

Verb

patah (Jawi spelling ڤاته)

  1. To split or snap (of hard objects).
    Meja aku patah.
    My table snapped.
  2. (figurative) To come to a stop.
    Perjalanan aku patah selepas kena tahan polis.
    My journey came to a stop after I was arrested by police.

Noun

patah (Jawi spelling ڤاته, plural patah-patah or patah2)

  1. Counter word for words.
    sepatah kata ― one word
    dua patah kata ― two words
    beberapa patah kata ― a few words
  2. A type of herbal plant.

Affixations

Compounds

  • patah arang
  • patah balik
  • patah batu, patah hati
  • patah hati
  • patah jetam
  • patah kaki
  • patah lagu
  • patah lidah
  • patah mayang
  • patah nafsu, patah selera
  • patah perang
  • patah pucuk
  • patah riuk
  • patah said
  • patah semangat
  • patah siku
  • patah tulang
  • sepatah dua kata

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: patah (inherited)

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pataq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.