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makna.

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5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

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noun/ˈmakna//ˈmaʔna/

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Borrowed from Arabic مَعْنًى (maʕnan) via Malay makna. As the pronunciation of syllable-final ⟨k⟩ is ambiguous for many speakers of Indonesian, it triggers the spelling pronunciation with a hard /k/.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.