tekan

tekan

English

Etymology

From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /təˈkɑn/

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Verb

tekan (third-person singular simple present tekans, present participle tekaning, simple past and past participle tekaned)

1. (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly.
   • 1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean, Usenet‎:

     "Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"

   • 2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:

     We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated

   • 2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:

     When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully).

   • 2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60:

     It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan.

Anagrams

• Kenta, taken

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Gothic

Romanization

tēkan

1. Romanization of 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tekan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [təˈkan]
• Hyphenation: tê‧kan

Verb

têkan (base-imperative)

1. to press

Derived terms

• bersetekan
• bertekan
• bertekanan
• menekan
• menekankan
• penekan
• penekanan
• tekanan
• tertekan
• tertekan-tekan

 

Further reading

• “tekan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”). Cognate with Tagalog tikin (“a bamboo pole for propelling boats in shallow streams”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təkan/

Verb

tekan (Jawi spelling تکن‎)

1. press

   Tekan butang tu, cepat!

   Quick, press the button!

2. pressurise, pressure

   Cik Farid ditekankan untuk menandatangani kontrak tersebut.

   Mr. Farid was pressurised into signing the contract.

Derived terms

• tekanan (“pressure”)
• penekanan (“the act of pressing or pressurising”)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tekan
• → English: tekan

Further reading

• “tekan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary