kena

Pronunciation: /kəˈna/

“kena” is a Malay word. Its 6 meanings in English:

verb

to incur, to bring upon oneself, to be touched adversely
to contact, to experience, to exactly touch or hit off
to touch, to strike, to hit, to affect
to have to do, must, to need to do, to need
to be exact, to be accurate, to be precise

particle

adversative passive marker, similar to English passive get, optionally used with the prepositions dengan (“with”) or oleh (“by”)

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Malay کنا (kena), from Old Malay [script needed] (knā), from Proto-Malayic *kəna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəna, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”)

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