23 Mar 2019

Ithar is altruistic

Ithar
  • Arabic loan
  • Altruistic
  • Abu seorang pelajar ithar kerana dia selalu membantu rakan-rakannya yang lemah.
  • Keitharan= altruism; Keitharan Danial patut dicontohkan oleh pelajar-pelajar universiti itu.
Itlak
  • Arabic loan
  • Conclude
  • Pengitlakan: conclusion
  • Daripada apa yang kita tahu, kita boleh mengitlakkan bahawa Si Donald itu tak bersalah.
Ittifak
  • Arabic loan
  • Agreement
  • Kita perlu ada ittifak daripada semua pihak berkepentingan sebelum kita buat keputusan.
Iyal
  • Arabic loan
  • Dependents
  • Kemalangan dan kematian kedua-dua ibubapanya telah mengiyalkan Amin.
Izhar
  • Arabic loan
  • Clear
  • Menteri itu telah memberi pengizharan (penjelasan) berkenaan dengan tender itu.
Izin=consent

Izzah 
  • Arabic loan
  • Self-respect
  • Seorang wanita patut ada izzah dan yakin pada sendiri.
Izzat
  • Arabic loan
  • glory, grandeur
  • Istana izzat kamu boleh ke kubur?
Jabal
  • gunung (Arabic), confiscate (Jakarta)


Jabang
  • hand-cannon stand, arquebus fork rest, swivel of hand culverin, cannon gun carriage, the two cheeks holding the trunnion of a cannon.
Jabar
  • Omnipotence
  • Tuhan Yesus yang jabar selama-lamanya.
Jabat
  • Job, occupation, pekerjaan
  • Jabatan: adding -an gives the meaning of place where occupation or job is done, confer hentian, kurungan, buaian
  • Semasa ekonomi meleset, kadar pengangguran tinggi dan jabat susah dicari.
Jabing
  • Telinga jabing: telinga besar
  • Menjabing telinga: Menjadikan telinga jabing (besar) dengan menarik telinga
Jabir
  • Berjabir-jabir: koyak-koyak
  • Selepas tiga minggu merentas hutan segala pakaian sudah berjabir-jabir.
Jadi
  • Jadinya: kerana itu
  • Dia sudah kehabisan duit jadinya dia balik ke negara asal.
  • Jadilah: bersetuju
  • Dia jadilah menjual tanah itu setelah diberi tawaran lumayan itu.
  • Sejadinya: semula jadi
  • Musa textilis menghasilkan sejenis serat sejadinya yang boleh ditenun menjadi kain.
  • Sejadi-jadinya
  • Dia menjerit sejadi-jadinya semasa cubaan merogol sehingga menarik perhatian jiran tetangga.
Jagal
  • Small retail business
  • Jagalan: things sold in said small business, low-quality items
Bantai
  • main meaning is slaughter for food, second only is hit
Jagat I
  • World, Universe
  • Sejagat: Universal
  • Kesejagatan: universality
  • Penyejagatan: universalization
Jagat II
  • pigmentation, freckles
  • Muka berjagat kerana perit bersawah mencari makan.
Jaguh
  • Original meaning is a cock, then it means candidate for a party, then only it is a winner but it can also mean someone renown in a field, a renown person.
  • Goliath merupakan jaguh (jagoan) orang Philistine.
  • Sebelum jaguh berkokok tiga kali kamu akan menafikan saya.
Jagur
  • Large for age; bagur
  • Anaknya jagur itu sebab masa hamil perut nampak besar sangat.
Jah
  • Glory, grandeur; izzat
  • Kejahan Tuhan tak boleh ditandingi.
Jahang I
  • Dark red
Jahang II

  • coarse language
  • menjahang: curse someone, insult someone
  • Kacau saya tak apa, tapi kalau mula menjahang saya akan membalas dengan tumbukan.
Jahar
  • Arabic loan
  • loud, nyaring
  • Dengan suara jahar menyahut kekasihnya yang sudah lama tak bertemu.
Jaharu
  • Literary term 
  • despicable person, rogue
Jahat

  • Berjahatkan: slander, libel; fitnah
  • Jangan suka berjahatkan orang nanti kena saman.
Jahil
  • Ignorant, dangkal
Jahit
  • Menjahitkan: sew for someone (because there is no menjahiti), sew something
Jail
  • Tali jail=penjail: joran untuk menangkap udang.
Jais
  • =kalis
  • nothing will leave a mark on it, jais peluru: a bullet will not leave a mark on it
Jaiz
  • Allowed but not encouraged.
Jajah=jajap
  • =jelajah
Jajat
  • Mengejek, mengajuk, tease
Jaka
  • Bermain guli
Jakal
  • Jackal
Jaki
  • Berasa marah, meradang
  • Aminah jaki kerana tidak dijemput ke jamuan akhir tahun itu.
Jalad
  • Algojo, pertanda, pelebaya, executioner
Jalak
  • vernacular
  • brave person
Jalang
  • feral, wild
  • Babi yang melarikan dari ladang di Texas lalu menjadi jalang.
Jalangkah
  • Flyover, overpass
Jalar
  • Creeping
Jali
  • Arabic loan
  • Enlighten
  • Terjali: receive revelation, receive inspiration, enlightenment
  • Selepas menghadiri kursus, saya menjadi terjali.
Jalil
  • Arabic loan
  • The highest
  • Hosanna, hosanna kepada yang jalil.
Jalin
  • Weave, braid, anyam, kepang
  • Rambut jalin: braided hair
  • Berjalinkan: weave in
Jalis
  • Arabic loan
  • Friend
Jalu
  • spur of the rooster
  • susuh ayam jantan, jangkir
  • Maybe we can translate bone spur to jalu tulang
Jalur
  • Band
Jamak
  • Jamaknya: commonly, usually=lazim=biasa
Jamang, Jejamang
  • Forehead band, decorations put on the forehead
  • Can be used to translate sweatband into jejamang peluh
Jambang I
  • Or jambangan: Vase
Jambang II
  • sideburn, mutton chops
Jambar
  • Serving, hidangan
Jambu-jambu
  • tassel (of spear), forelock, bangs
  • jambul, gombak
Jambul
  • Forelock, comb (of rooster)
Jamiah
  • Association, assembly, organization
Jampuk
  • Interject, interpolate, interpose, butt in, heckle
  • Mencelah, menyampuk
Jamung
  • Torch
  • Andang, suluh
Andang-andang
  • Mast
Jangak
  • =penjangak
  • indecent, pervert
Jangat
  • Bark (of plants), hide (of animal)
  • Peribahasa: Jangat liat (bend but doesn't break) kurang panggang (bakar): Bark that is green doesn't burn: unteachable
  • Peribahasa: Tinggal jangat pemalut tulang: Hide wrapping the bones: very thin, skin and bones.
Janggai I
  • Fake nails used by dancers
  • Maybe used to translate fake nails in general.
Janggai II
  • Tall and thin
  • Maybe used to translate ectomorph, maybe even cachexia.
  • The old man looked cachetic: Lelaki tua itu nampak janggai.
Janggal
  • Awkward, dissonant, out-of-place
Jangka
  • -meter, jangka galvani: galvanometer
Jangka III
  • Hope, motivation, reason
Jangkah
  • langkah
  • stride
Jangkang
  • terjangkang, terkangkang, terkengkang
  • menjangkang: ataxic gait
Jangkar I
  • Aerial buttress/stilt/prop roots
Jangkar II
  • Sauh
  • Anchor
Jangkat
  • Ford (of a river)
Jangkir
  • Jalu, susuh
  • Spur
Jangkungan
  • Stilts
Jantang

  • Berjantang, menjantang
  • Obvious veins, can use to translate varicose veins, vascularity (of body building)
Janubi
  • Arabic loan
  • Selatan
  • South
Jara
  • gerudi, busar kapas
  • drill, cotton gin
Jarah
  • barang yang dirampas
  • plunder, loot, pillage, ransack
  • Tomb raider: penjarah makam
Jaram
  • Penjaram, jaraman
  • Cold compression pack

























21 Mar 2019

Learn Bahasa Terengganu

1. Semalam teringin makan cek komeng bakar tetapi bila sampai kedai sudah abih jual.
cek komeng: babi
abih: habis

2. Nasik dagang hok mung beli tadi ba'a doh.
nasik: nasi
hok: yang
mung: kamu
ba'a: basi
doh: sudah

3. Ikok gok cakak mok, jangang babe sangak.
ikok: ikut
gok: juga, guna seperti 'lah'
cakak: cakap
mok: mak
jangang: jangan
babe: degil
sangak: sangat

4. Nasik ayang hok mok deme masak sangak sedak.
ayang: ayam
deme: kamu
sedak: sedap

Words almost like in BM: abih, nasik, mung, doh, ikok, gok, cakak, mok, jangang, sangak, ayang, sedak
Words that are very different: hok, ba'a, babe, cek komeng, deme


6 Mar 2019

What are you going to do when a bald guy who is taller than you,
Comes in and say we are going to lunch now. Well you stop blogging and go for lunch. Sorry to all my readers for a substanceless post yesterday. Anyway continuing what I said yesterday. I been through all the systems and yet they were all found wanting. In capitalism we assume that the individual is good and will make the right choice that will benefit society. In socialism we assume that the government will make the right choice and make decisions that will benefit society as a whole. But the fact of the matter is individuals and governments are humans and therefore are victims of vices such as greed and selfishness. So in all nations there is corruption at all levels and self-enrichment. Though it can be argued that socialism is worse because if you have one bad nut or a group of bad nuts at the top the whole country is screwed like if a dictator wishes to fill his swiss bank account rather than a hospital with equipment. While in a free-market society though most people are selfish but it can be argued that there will be enough people with a conscience to feed and provide healthcare for the poor to make up for it. This is demonstrated by the number of hospitals around the world that is run by private funds though it must be admitted that there are not enough.
As you can see there are a lot of suffering around the world and we can sometimes act to prematurely before we are ready or prepared to tackle which sometimes can make matters worse. But the urge to do something is that separate humans from animals and one of our instincts that we lose too easily when we get older and cynical. Call me naive but i believe that if we hold on to this trait long enough to acquire the skills and knowledge to do something useful we can actually change the world. Unfortunately we most often lose this trait in the midst of getting the knowledge and skills i.e. the years in university and the long years of our working life.

Ballad

  • tells a story.
  • iambic tetrameter, pentameter, and heptameter.
  • sestet.
  • second, fourth, and six line rhymes.

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