tingkat

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English

Etymology

From Malay tingkat.

Pronunciation

Noun

tingkat (usually uncountable, plural tingkats)

(informal, Singapore)

  1. Tiffin container
    • 2012 March 18, Eunice Quek, “Taste of home”, in The Sunday Times (LifeStyle), page 21:
      He suspected something was different with his tingkat (tiffin carrier) meal one week, after tasting the dishes.
  2. (metonymically, uncountable) Home-cooked meals from a home delivery and catering service.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tingkat (floor), from Classical Malay tingkat, from Minangkabau .

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ting‧kat
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

tingkat (plural tingkat-tingkat)

  1. level
    1. the same position or rank.
    2. a floor of a multi-storey building.
  2. rank (level of something)
    Synonym: pangkat
  3. class (level of something)
    Synonym: kelas
  4. floor
  5. rate
    tingkat pengangguranunemployment rate
    Synonym: angka
  6. storey, story: a floor or level of a building or ship.

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Malay

Etymology

Possibly from Minangkabau .

Pronunciation

Noun

tingkat (Jawi spelling تيڠکت, plural tingkat-tingkat, informal 1st possessive tingkatku, 2nd possessive tingkatmu, 3rd possessive tingkatnya)

  1. floor, storey
  2. level
  3. (Singapore) Ellipsis of mangkuk tingkat (tiffin container)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tingkat
  • English: tingkat (Singapore)

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