mosoken

Negeri Sembilan Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay miskin, from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔsɔken/ [mɔ.sɔ.ken]
  • Rhymes: -en
  • Hyphenation: mo‧so‧ken

Adjective

mosoken

  1. poor: With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.[1]
    Near-synonym: solompot

References

  1. ^ “mosoken”, in Glosari Dialek Negeri Sembilan [Negeri Sembilan Dialect Glossary] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa Pustaka, 2016, →ISBN, page 3
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