warkat

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic وَرَق (waraq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /warˈkat/, [wʌɾˈkʌʰt]
• Hyphenation: war‧kat

Noun

warkát m (plural waráakit m)

1. paper
2. letter

References

• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay [Term?] (Standard Malay warkah), from Arabic وَرَق (waraq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwar.kat/
• Rhymes: -kat
• Hyphenation: war‧kat

Noun

warkat (plural warkat-warkat, first-person possessive warkatku, second-person possessive warkatmu, third-person possessive warkatnya)

1. letter

   Synonym: surat

Alternative forms

• warakat
• warkah

Derived terms

• warkat berharga
• warkat pos

 

Further reading

• “warkat” 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.