tembak

English

Etymology

From Malay tembak.

Verb

tembak

1. (Manglish) to guess the answer to a multiple-choice question

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtembak/ [ˈt̪em.bak̚]
• Rhymes: -embak
• Syllabification: tem‧bak

Etymology 1

From Malay tembak, from Classical Malay tembak, from Proto-Malayic *timbak, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ti(m)bak.

Verb

tembak

1. to shoot (to fire a shot)
2. (informal) to declare one's love, to confess one's feelings to someone
3. (figurative, colloquial) to get legal document without or skip legal procedure
4. to charge price at will

Derived terms

• bertembakan
• menembak
• menembaki
• menembakkan
• penembak
• penembakan
• petembak
• tembak-menembak
• tembak-tembakan
• tembakan
• tertembak

• termometer tembak

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from Minangkabau tembak.

Noun

tembak (plural tembak-tembak)

1. (rare) aim, purpose

   Synonyms: arah, maksud, tuju

Derived terms

• menembak

Further reading

• “tembak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*timbak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Malay

Alternative forms

• timbak (obsolete)

Etymology

From timbak, from Proto-Malayic *timbak, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ti(m)bak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tembaʔ/
• Rhymes: -embaʔ, -baʔ, -aʔ

Verb

tembak (Jawi spelling تيمبق)

1. to shoot (to fire a shot)