tengadah
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiŋadaq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təŋadah/
- Rhymes: -adah, -dah, -ah
Verb
tengadah (Jawi spelling تڠاده)
- to look up, to look upwards
- Synonym: dongak
- Antonym: tunduk
- sudah terhantuk baru tengadah
- closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
- (literally, “looking up after the collision”)
Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
- menengadah [agent focus] (meN-)
- menengadahkan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
- ditengadahkan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
- tertengadah [agentless action] (teR-)
- bertengadah [stative / habitual] (beR-)
Descendants
- Indonesian: tengadah
Further reading
- “tengadah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.