sekal

Borrowed from Dutch schaal (“scale”), from Latin scāla. Doublet of skala.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈkal/ [səˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: se‧kal

sekal (plural sekal-sekal)

1. scale
   1. the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance; a line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
   2. (music) a series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies

      Synonyms: laras, tangga nada, tata laras

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• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈkal/ [səˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: se‧kal

sekal (comparative lebih sekal, superlative paling sekal)

1. chubby, hefty

Borrowed from Lampung Api [Term?] or Abung [Term?].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈkal/ [səˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: se‧kal

sekal (plural sekal-sekal)

1. a path in the forest used for pulling wood

• “sekal”, 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