jagal

Gullah

Alternative forms

• 'jagal, jagla, jagluh

Etymology

From Wolof jagal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟa.ɡɑl/, /d͡ʒa.ɡəl/, /d͡ʒaɡ.lə/

Verb

jagal

1. rise

   also see: jagalbod

References

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɡal/ [ˈd͡ʒa.ɡal]
• Rhymes: -aɡal
• Syllabification: ja‧gal

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay jagal (“small trader”).

Noun

jagal (plural jagal-jagal)

1. small trader

Derived terms

• berjagal
• jagalan

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from Javanese ꦗꦒꦭ꧀ (jagal, “butcher”). Calque of English butcherbird.

Noun

jagal (plural jagal-jagal)

1. butcher:
   1. (literal) a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals)
   2. (figurative) a brutal or indiscriminate killer

      Synonym: pembantai

2. butcherbird (any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, family Artamidae, of Australia and New Guinea)

Derived terms

• menjagal
• pejagalan
• penjagal
• penjagalan

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Berau Malay [Term?]

Verb

jagal

1. to be topless [since 2024]

Further reading

• “jagal”, 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

Javanese

Romanization

jagal

1. romanization of ꦗꦒꦭ꧀