Bahasa Melayu

memperhambakan

Bahasa Melayu

English

enslave, serve as a slave, subjugate

Memperhambakan means to treat someone as a slave or force them into slavery.

ممڤرهمباكن

Examples

Contoh ayat

  1. Penjajah itu memperhambakan penduduk tempatan.

    The colonisers enslaved the local people.

  2. Tiada siapa patut memperhambakan orang lain.

    No one should enslave another person.

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What does “enslave” mean in Malay?

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memperhambakan

This is the causative form from hamba.

Word family

Common derived forms

berhamba
to serve; to keep slaves
hamba
slave; servant; I; me

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Historical MyKamus entry, originally published 30 September 2010.