membayang-bayangkan
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /məmˌbajaŋ baˈjaŋkan/ [məmˌba.jaŋ baˈjaŋ.kan]
- Rhymes: -aŋkan
- Syllabification: mem‧ba‧yang-ba‧yang‧kan
Verb
membayang-bayangkan (active membayang-bayangkan, reflexive passive terbayang-bayangkan, ordinary passive dibayang-bayangkan, imperative bayang-bayangkan, emphatic-jussive bayang-bayangkanlah)
- to picture to one's self, to imagine
- to be fancy, to conceive of.
- to hint at, to allude for
- to hold out for someone the prospect that
- to call to mind, to call up before the mind.
- to sketch, to outline.
Further reading
- “membayang-bayangkan”, 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
Etymology
Affixation of bayang-bayang + meng- -kan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [məm.ba.jaŋ ba.jaŋ.kan]
Verb
membayang-bayangkan (Jawi spelling ممبايڠ-بايڠکن)
- Active of bayang-bayangkan.