betah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay betah. Cognate of Javanese ꦧꦼꦠꦃ (betah, “comfortable, endured; need”), Old Javanese bĕtah (“tenacious, stubborn, persistent, tireless”).

• The sense of recovered is a semantic loan from Persian بهتر (behtar, “better”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈtah/
• Hyphenation: bê‧tah
• Rhymes: -tah, -ah, -h

Adjective

bêtah

1. comfortable
2. persistent, tireless
3. recovered, convalescent

Derived terms

• membetahkan

 

Further reading

• “betah” 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.