pejagalan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed jagal (“butcher”) + peng- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦼꦗꦒꦭꦤ꧀ (pejagalan, “abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from Old Javanese pajagalan (“place for slaughtering”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə.d͡ʒa.ˈɡal.an/
- Hyphenation: pê‧ja‧gal‧an
Noun
pêjagalan (plural pejagalan-pejagalan, first-person possessive pejagalanku, second-person possessive pejagalanmu, third-person possessive pejagalannya)
- abattoir, slaughterhouse
- Synonyms: abatoar, pejagalan, rumah jagal, rumah pemotongan, rumah potong, pembantaian
- Synonyms: pembantaian, rumah sembelih (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “pejagalan” 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.
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