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kena.

to touch, hit

4 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

verb/kəˈna/Standard-Indonesian[kəˈna]Standard-Indonesian

  1. to touch, hit

    transitive
    Cairan asamnya kena jas.

  2. to strike

    transitive
    Tembakan tadi sangat kena sasaran!

  3. to be exact, to be accurate, to be precise

    intransitive

  4. to be affected

    auxiliary · sometimes · transitive
    Anakku kena sengat tawon.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay kena, from Classical Malay کنا (kena), from Old Malay [script needed] (knā), from Proto-Malayic *kəna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəna, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”). * Semantic loan from Javanese ꦏꦼꦤ (kena, “able; can, allowed; succeed”, literally “hit, struck”) for sense related to agreement, approval; pleasure.

adj/kəˈna/Standard-Indonesian[kəˈna]Standard-Indonesian

  1. -able

    kena pajak
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay kena, from Classical Malay کنا (kena), from Old Malay [script needed] (knā), from Proto-Malayic *kəna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəna, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”). * Semantic loan from Javanese ꦏꦼꦤ (kena, “able; can, allowed; succeed”, literally “hit, struck”) for sense related to agreement, approval; pleasure.

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