cacah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cacah, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cɔh, *ʔcɔh (“to peck, to strike with adze, hoe, etc.”).

• The senses other than image on skin of chopped mark is semantic loan from Javanese ꦕꦕꦃ (cacah, “counting, chopping”), from Old Javanese cacah (“in pieces, in shreds, cut up, covered with wounds, carving”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃat͡ʃah]
• Hyphenation: ca‧cah

Noun

cacah (first-person possessive cacahku, second-person possessive cacahmu, third-person possessive cacahnya)

1. image (on skin) of chopped mark.
2. (dialect, Java) count: the result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
3. (dialect, Java) farmer, regular villager.

Derived terms

• bercacah
• cacahan
• mencacah
• mencacah-cacah
• pencacah
• pencacahan
• tercacah

 

• cacah baku
• cacah ekonomi
• cacah jiwa
• cacah karya
• cacah lubang
• cacah sawah

 

Verb

cacah

1. to chop.

   Synonyms: cencang, cincang

Derived terms

• mencacah

 

Further reading

• “cacah” 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.