hisap

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Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *hisəp, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hisəp, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hisəp, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qisəp, from the root *-səp.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hisap (Jawi spelling هيسڤ, active menghisap, 3rd person passive dihisap)

  1. (transitive) to suck; to use the mouth to pull something in (of one's thumb, opium-smoking, tobacco-smoking, etc.)
    Synonym: sedut
    hisap rokokto smoke (lit. "to suck a cigarette")

Affixations

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Compounds

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: hisap

References

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

Further reading

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