isap

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• hisap (proscribed by KBBI)

Etymology

Deaspirated from hisap, inherited from Malay hisap, from Proto-Malayic *hisəp, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qisəp, from the root *-səp.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈisap/ [ˈi.sap̚]
• Rhymes: -isap
• Syllabification: i‧sap

Verb

isap (active mengisap, reflexive passive terisap, ordinary passive diisap, imperative isap, emphatic-jussive isaplah)

1. (transitive) to suck (to use the mouth to pull in liquid etc)

   Near-synonym: sedot

2. (transitive) to smoke

   Synonym: (intransitive) merokok

   Kakekku suka mengisap rokok.

   My grandfather likes to smoke cigarettes.

Derived terms

• isapan (“something that is sucked”)
• isapkan
• pengisap (“sucker”)
• pengisapan (“sucking”)
• terisap (“sucked”)

Further reading

• “isap”, 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) “*qisep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI