tekan

From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): [ˌtəˈkan], [ˌtə˧ˈkan˦]

tekan (invariable)

1. (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts).
   • 1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean‎^[1] (Usenet):

     "Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"

   • 2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:

     We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated

   • 2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:

     When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully).

   • 2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60:

     It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan.

• Kenta, taken

tēkan

1. romanization of 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽

• teken (colloquial)

Inherited from Malay tekan, from Proto-Malayic *təkən, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /təˈkan/ [t̪əˈkan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: te‧kan

têkan (active menekan, passive ditekan)

1. to press

• “tekan” 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.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*teken”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təkən (“downward pressure; bamboo punting pole”). Cognate with Tagalog tikin (“a bamboo pole for propelling boats in shallow streams”).

• IPA^(key): /təkan/

tekan (Jawi spelling تکن)

1. press

   Tekan butang tu, cepat!

   Quick, press the button!

2. pressurise, pressure

   Cik Farid ditekankan untuk menandatangani kontrak tersebut.

   Mr. Farid was pressurised into signing the contract.

• tekanan (“pressure”)
• penekanan (“the act of pressing or pressurising”)

• Indonesian: tekan
• → English: tekan

• “tekan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary