hapus

Pronunciation: /hapus/

“hapus” is a Malay word. Its meaning in English:

verb

to extinguish; to put an end to

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of mampus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).

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