akal

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay akal, from Classical Malay عقل (akal), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “understanding, intellect”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.kal/
  • Rhymes: -kal
  • Hyphenation: a‧kal

Noun

akal (plural akal-akal)

  1. mind
    Synonyms: akal pikiran, pikiran
    1. the capability for rational thought
    2. the ability to be aware of things
    3. the ability to remember things
    4. the ability to focus the thoughts
  2. way (a method or manner of doing something)
    Synonyms: jalan, cara
  3. trick; deception (an instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy)
    Synonyms: akal-akalan, tipu daya
  4. reason (rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition)

Conjugation

Conjugation of akal (ber-, intransitive)
root akal
active passive basic
imperative 		emphatic
jussive
reflective1 ordinary
ordinary
nominative berakal – – – –
accusative / dative / locative mengakali terakali diakali akali akalilah
perfective causative / applicative2 mengakalkan – diakalkan akalkan akalkanlah
causative
nominative – – – – –
accusative / dative / locative memperakali – diperakali perakali perakalilah
perfective causative / applicative2 memperakalkan – diperakalkan – –

1 There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
2 The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia ‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

akal

  1. romanization of ꦲꦏꦭ꧀

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “understanding, intellect”).

Noun

akal (Jawi spelling عقل or اکل, plural akal-akal)

  1. thought, mind
    Manusia ialah makhluk yang berakal.
    Humans are beings with minds.
  2. idea, way, solution
    Aku ada satu akal.
    I have an idea.
  3. trick, deception
    Sang Harimau terperdaya lagi oleh akal Sang Kancil.
    Tiger has yet again fallen for Mousedeer's tricks.

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: akal (inherited)
  • → Javanese: ꦲꦏꦭ꧀ (akal)
  • → Ternate: akal

Further reading

Ternate

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql)

Pronunciation

Noun

akal

  1. the mind

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Adjective

akal

  1. pink

Veps

Noun

akal

  1. adessive singular of ak
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