rintih

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦫꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦶꦃ (rintih, “to moan, to weep in pain”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈrintih/ [ˈrin̪.t̪ɪh]
• Rhymes: -intih
• Syllabification: rin‧tih

Verb

rintih

1. Chiefly used in form of merintih (“to groan”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rintih (meng-, transitive)

root	rintih
	active	passive		basic imperative	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
nominative	merintih	–	–	rintih	–
accusative / dative / locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	–	–	–	–	–
	causative
nominative	–	–	–	–	–
accusative / dative / locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	–	–	–	–	–

¹ There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• merintih
• rintihan

Further reading

• “rintih”, 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