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sekat.

partition, screen; bulkhead

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/sə.ˈkat̚/
  1. partition, screen; bulkhead

  2. wall

  3. impediment, obstacle

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay sekat, from Proto-Malayic *səkat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səkəd. The sense of to stop is semantic loan from Minangkabau [Term?].

verb/sə.ˈkat̚/
  1. to skate

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Dutch schaats (“skate, ice skate”), from Middle Dutch schāetse (“stilt”), from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”), from Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), from the verb *skakan (“to shake”).

noun/sə.ˈkat̚/
  1. skate, ice skate

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Dutch schaats (“skate, ice skate”), from Middle Dutch schāetse (“stilt”), from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”), from Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), from the verb *skakan (“to shake”).

verb/sə.ˈkat̚/
  1. to stop

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay sekat, from Proto-Malayic *səkat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səkəd. The sense of to stop is semantic loan from Minangkabau [Term?].

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