cacah

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”).

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

cacah (plural cacah-cacah)

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

cacah

1. to chop

   Synonyms: cencang, cincang

• “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.

cacah

1. romanization of ꦕꦕꦃ