lekas
- present ofleki
- IPA(key): /ləˈkas/
- Hyphenation:lê‧kas
- Rhymes:-as
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*lekas(“quick, quickly”),*-kas(“swift, agile, strong, energetic”).
lêkas
- soon,quickly
- Synonyms:cepat,segera
- Jika kita melalui jalan ini, kita akanlekas sampai sana. ―If we go this way, we'll get therequickly.
- Lekas sembuh! ―Get wellsoon!
FromBalineseᬍᬓᬲ᭄(lekas).
lêkas
- (dialect)alternative form ofmelekas(“to use black magic, to transform with black magic”)
Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*lekas(“quick, quickly”), with the root*-kas(“swift, agile, strong, energetic”).
lekas (Jawi spellingلکس)
- Quickly orfast.
- Synonyms:cepat,segera
- Antonyms:lambat,lengah
- “lekas”, inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,2017
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lekas₂”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
lekas
- passiveinfinitive ofleka
