piket

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch piket (“immediate reaction troop”), from French piquet (“picket, school punishment”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpikɛt/ [ˈpi.kɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ikɛt
• Syllabification: pi‧ket

Noun

pikèt (plural piket-piket)

1. watch, a period of time on duty

Verb

pikèt

1. to watch, to look at for a period of time

Descendants

• → Tetum: piket

Further reading

• “piket”, 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

Swedish

Etymology

From French piquet. Cognate of English picket, German Pikett, Russian пикет (piket).

Noun

piket c

1. emergency vehicle, picket (police force on standby for rapid response)

   Not to be confused with piké.

Declension

Declension of piket

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	piket	pikets
	definite	piketen	piketens
plural	indefinite	piketer	piketers
	definite	piketerna	piketernas

Derived terms

• piketbil

References

• “piket”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “piket”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “piket”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian piket.

Noun

piket

1. duty officer, person on-call

Further reading

• Catharina Williams-van Klinken (2023), GLOSARIU termu saude ho mediku (Tetun/Ingles) [Tetun/English glossary of health and medical terms] (in Tetum), Dili: Dili Institute of Technology