mentah-mentah

Reduplication of mentah (“raw, unripe, incomplete”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /mənˌtah mənˈtah/ [mən̪ˌt̪ah mən̪ˈt̪ah]
• Rhymes: -ah
• Syllabification: men‧tah-men‧tah

mêntah-mêntah

1. rawly, unripely
2. (figurative) point-blank, outright (in a direct manner, without hesitation)

• tolak mentah-mentah (“to outright reject”)

• “mentah-mentah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016