tegas
Esperanto
Verb
tegas
- present of tegi
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay tegas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təgas (“clear, straightforward”). Possibly a doublet of tugas (“task, assignment”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təˈɡas/ [t̪əˈɡas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: te‧gas
Adjective
tegas
- clear and distinct; obvious
- Synonym: (dialectal) tandas
- definite and certain (no hesitation, no vagueness)
Derived terms
- ketegasan
- mempertegas
- menegas
- menegaskan
- pemertegas
- penegas
- penegasan
- pertegasan
Further reading
- “tegas”, 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
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tegas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Latin
Verb
tegās
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of tegō