tembak

From Malay tembak.

tembak

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

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

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

tembak (active menembak, reflexive passive tertembak, ordinary passive ditembak, imperative tembak, emphatic-jussive tembaklah)

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

Semantic loan from Minangkabau tembak.

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

tembak (plural tembak-tembak)

1. (rare) aim, purpose

   Synonyms: arah, maksud, tuju

• “tembak”, 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
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*timbak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• timbak (obsolete)

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

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

tembak (Jawi spelling تيمبق)

1. to shoot (to fire a shot)