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Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay tikung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tikuŋ (“curl, bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈti.kuŋ/,
- Rhymes: -ikuŋ
- Hyphenation: ti‧kung
Verb
tikung (active menikung, passive ditikung)
- (intransitive) to corner (to drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space)
- to turn:
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- (transitive, figurative) to stab (to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander)
Derived terms
Compounds
References
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tikuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI