menangkap
Pronunciation: /məˈnaŋkap̚/
“menangkap” is an Indonesian word. Its 8 meanings in English:
verb
- to capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape)
- to unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something)
- to make a grasping or snatching motion (at)
- to grasp mentally: perceive and understand
- to take goods knowing them to be stolen
- to detect a signal from a transmitter
- to arrest, to hold, to detain, to apprehend
- to seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody
Etymology
Affixed meng- + tangkap.
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