Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
Source: wiktionary
Reduplication
//ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "reduplication" (34 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Related words (17)
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27 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διπλασιασμός noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Arabic
2 entries- مضاعفة noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
- مضاعفة noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Bulgarian
1 entries- повторение noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Esperanto
1 entries- duobligo noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Finnish
1 entries- reduplikaatio noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
French
1 entries- redoublement noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
German
1 entries- Reduplikation noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Greek
1 entries- αναδιπλασιασμός noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Hungarian
2 entries- ikerszó noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
- ikerítés noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Indonesian
1 entries- reduplikasi noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Italian
1 entries- reduplicazione noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Korean
1 entries- 첩어 noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Macedonian
2 entries- повтору́вање noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
- редуплика́ција noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Malayalam
1 entries- പുനരാവർത്തനം noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Manx
1 entries- aachoipal noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Portuguese
1 entries- reduplicação noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Russian
1 entries- редупликация noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ath-dhùblachadh noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Spanish
1 entries- reduplicación noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Sundanese
1 entries- rajékan noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Swedish
1 entries- fördubbling noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Turkish
1 entries- ikileme noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Vietnamese
1 entries- láy âm noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Yoruba
1 entries- àpètúnpè noun (the act of, or an instance of, reduplication)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]
Source: wiktionary
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