teka-teki
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of teka (“to guess, suspect”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təˌka təˈki/ [t̪əˌka t̪əˈki]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: te‧ka-te‧ki
Noun
[edit]têka-têki
- riddle (a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature)
- (figurative) puzzle (anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of)
Compounds
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “teka-teki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.