menggali

== Indonesian == === Etymology === From Malay menggali, from Classical Malay menggali, equivalent to meng- +‎ gali. The sense “to investigate” is a semantic loan from English dig. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /məŋˈɡali/ [məŋˈɡa.li] Rhymes: -ali Syllabification: meng‧ga‧li === Verb === menggali (active formal menggali, active informal nggali, reflexive passive tergali, ordinary passive digali, imperative gali, emphatic-jussive galilah) to dig (ambitransitive) to make a hole through rocks, roads, or the like; (transitive) to get by digging; to take from the ground (figurative, transitive) to investigate, to research === Further reading === “menggali”, 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