pepatah

pepatah

1. proverb, saying

• “pepatah”, 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

Partial reduplication of patah.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpatah/ [pəˈpa.t̪ah]
• Hyphenation: pe‧pa‧tah

pepatah (Jawi spelling ڤڤاته, plural pepatah-pepatah)

1. A proverb or saying.

• “pepatah”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017