meninggalkan
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay meninggalkan,from Classical Malay meninggalkan. Equivalent tomeng- + tinggal + -kan.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: me‧ning‧gal‧kan
- Rhymes: -kan
Verb
meninggalkan
- (transitive) to abandon, to forsake (to cease to support or look after someone)
- Synonym: menelantarkan
- (transitive) to spare, to retain (to keep at one's disposal)
- Synonym: menyisakan
- (transitive) to abandon, to drop (to discontinue a course of action or study)
- Synonym: melepaskan
- (transitive) to give up, to desist from, to stop (to discontinue a bad habit)
- Synonyms: melepaskan, menghilangkan
- (transitive) to rule out, to exclude (to omit from consideration)
- Synonym: mengesampingkan
- (transitive) to neglect, to put aside (to fail to care for or attend to something)
- Synonyms: mengalpakan, menelantarkan
Related terms
- bertinggal
- ketertinggalan
- ketinggalan
- meninggal
- meninggali
- peninggal
- peninggalan
- pertinggal
- sepeninggal
- tertinggal
- tinggal
- tinggalan
Further reading
- “meninggalkan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.