tekan

== English == === Etymology === From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”). === Pronunciation === (Singapore) IPA(key): [ˌtəˈkan], [ˌtə˧ˈkan˦] === Verb === tekan (invariable) (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts). === Anagrams === Kenta, taken == Gothic == === Romanization === tēkan romanization of 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽 == Indonesian == === Alternative forms === teken (colloquial) === Etymology === Inherited from Malay tekan, from Proto-Malayic *təkən, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təˈkan/ [t̪əˈkan] Rhymes: -an Syllabification: te‧kan === Verb === têkan (active menekan, passive ditekan) to press ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “tekan”, 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 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*teken”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI == 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) menekan to press (of pumps, dispensers etc) to pump, to inject something by pushing on a pump etc menekankan to pressure i.e. to strongly or aggressively encourage towards a particular action; to pressurise ==== Derived terms ==== tekanan (“pressure”) penekanan (“the act of pressing or pressurising”) ==== Descendants ==== Indonesian: tekan → English: tekan === Further reading === "tekan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017 Austronesian Comparative Dictionary