kenap

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəˈnap/ [kəˈnap̚]
• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: ke‧nap

Noun

kenap (plural kenap-kenap)

1. small table

Further reading

• “kenap”, 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

Malay

Etymology

Apocopic form of kenapa (“why”)

Adverb

kenap

1. (colloquial) alternative form of kenapa

References

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[1], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 30