menakal

Malay

Etymology

Affixation of meng- +‎ nakal (“naughty; evil”).

Pronunciation

  • (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /məˈnakal/ [məˈna.kal]
    • Audio (Malaysia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -akal, -kal, -al
  • Hyphenation: me‧na‧kal

Verb

menakal (Jawi spelling مناکل)

  1. (intransitive) to be naughty or to behave naughtily
  2. (intransitive) to be evil or to behave evilly

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.