mereka

== Indonesian == === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /məˈreka/ [məˈre.ka] Rhymes: -eka Syllabification: me‧re‧ka === Etymology 1 === From Malay mereka, the further etymology is still unknown (Can this(+) etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Old Javanese marika”). Displaced native Proto-Malayic *sida(ʔ) (whence Iban sida). ==== Pronoun ==== mêreka third person plural pronoun: they, them, their ===== See also ===== === Etymology 2 === Affixed reka (“to arrange, create”) +‎ meng-. ==== Verb ==== mêreka active of reka === Further reading === “mereka”, 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 == Malay == === Pronunciation === (Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA(key): /məˈrekə/ [məˈre.kə] Rhymes: -ekə, -kə, -ə (Literary Standard) IPA(key): /məˈreka/ [məˈre.ka] Rhymes: -eka, -ka, -a Hyphenation: me‧re‧ka === Etymology 1 === Unknown (Can this(+) etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Old Javanese marika”) Displaced native Proto-Malayic *sida(ʔ) (whence Iban sida). ==== Pronoun ==== mereka (Jawi spelling مريک) (formal) Third person plural pronoun; they, them. Synonyms: dia orang (informal), depa (Kedah) ==== See also ==== === Etymology 2 === Affixation of me- +‎ reka. ==== Verb ==== mereka (Jawi spelling مريک) Active of reka. === Further reading === "mereka" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017 Adelaar, K. A. (1992), Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎[1], Pacific Linguistics, →DOI