membayangkan

Indonesian

Etymology

bayang +‎ meng- -kan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /məmbaˈjaŋkan/ [məm.baˈjaŋ.kan]
• Rhymes: -aŋkan
• Syllabification: mem‧ba‧yang‧kan

Verb

membayangkan (active membayangkan, reflexive passive terbayangkan, ordinary passive dibayangkan, imperative bayangkan, emphatic-jussive bayangkanlah)

1. to picture to one's self,
2. (transitive) to imagine
   • 2017, SimulasiKredit:

     Sulit dibayangkan alasan mengapa selembar kertas bisa dianggap memiliki nilai yang sama dengan seekor kambing, misalnya, atau sebuah layar televisi.

     It's hard to imagine the reason why a piece of paper could be considered to have the same value as a goat, for example, or a television screen.

3. (transitive) to fantasize

   Synonym: mengkhayalkan

4. to be fancy, to conceive of.
5. to hint at, to allude for
6. to hold out for someone the prospect that
7. to call to mind, to call up before the mind.
8. to sketch, to outline.

Further reading

• “membayangkan”, 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

Affixation of bayang +‎ meng- -kan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [məm.ba.jaŋ.kan]
• Hyphenation: mem‧ba‧yang‧kan

Verb

membayangkan (Jawi spelling ممبايڠکن)

1. Active of bayangkan.