Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Dialect 3

Dear Diary,

As I'm now in my home town, I thought why not write another post on Kedah dialect. Let's learn new words...

LA - now (sekarang)
AWAT - why (kenapa, pasal apa)
DAN - in the nick of time (sempat)
AYAQ - water (air)
HABAQ - tell, inform (khabar, beritahu)
LALU - have appetite to eat (selera untuk makan)
CELUIH - fit nicely (muat)
LOKOIH - thoroughly wet (basah lencun)
KETEGAQ - stubborn (degil)
LIGAN - chase, run after (kejar)

4 notes of inspiration:

rostina76 said...

salam unaizah….lama xdengar khabar u. dok kg ekk, patut le sunyi. btw dlm byk2 list tu LOKOIH je ros xtau. hahaha!!!!xpass lg ni jd org kedah

Unaizah said...

Ros - Ada di kampung ni since cuti sekolah start. Sejak dua menjak ni sikit "merajuk" & takde mood nak update blog. Laptop rosak...sekali dgn gambar-gambar semua gone. Tengah dok selamatkan mana yg blh.

nurbijen said...

saya pun sama mcm kak ros... yg lain dah biasa dengar, cuma lokoih tu first time...

Unaizah said...

Nurbijen - Hihihi, dpt belajar perkataan baru kan :-)