tegar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto tegi and Latin tegere, present active infinitive of tegō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈɡar/

Verb

tegar (present tense tegas, past tense tegis, future tense tegos, imperative tegez, conditional tegus)

1. (transitive) to cover (a bed, a piece of furniture, etc.)
2. (transitive) to caparison

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tegar

		present		past		future
infinitive		tegar		tegir		tegor
tense		tegas		tegis		tegos
conditional		tegus
imperative		tegez
adjective active participle		teganta		teginta		tegonta
adverbial active participle		tegante		teginte		tegonte
nominal active participle	singular	teganto		teginto		tegonto
	plural	teganti		teginti		tegonti
adjective passive participle		tegata		tegita		tegota
adverbial passive participle		tegate		tegite		tegote
nominal passive participle	singular	tegato		tegito		tegoto
	plural	tegati		tegiti		tegoti

Derived terms

• tegilo (“cover (for bed, etc.), horse cloth, caparison”)
• tegotelo (“cloth cover; tarpaulin”)

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tegar, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₂guur, *t₂gar (“straight, upright”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tə.ˈɡar/
• Rhymes: -ɡar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: tê‧gar

Adjective

têgar

1. stiff-dry

   Synonym: keras

2. rigid, inflexible, unyielding.

   Synonyms: kaku, keras

3. obstinate, stubborn.
4. determined.

   Synonym: tabah

Verb

têgar

1. (imperative) to harden, to stiffen

Derived terms

• ketegaran
• menegarkan

 

• tegar hati
• tegar pelupuk mata
• tegar tengkuk

 

Further reading

• “tegar” 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.

Latin

Verb

tegar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of tegō

Swedish

Noun

tegar

1. indefinite plural of teg

Anagrams

• Greta, tager