Question:
How do you say 'Damnit' in Malay?
JLA
2013-06-06 09:31:59 UTC
What's the Malay equivalent? Not like a loud DAMNIT but like soft, under your breath angry, "Damnit..."
Four answers:
anonymous
2013-06-06 22:08:50 UTC
Try "Celaka" (Che- luck- Ker.. )
jimmy
2013-06-06 23:48:20 UTC
If you want a translation, it's "sialan"[unluckiness]...but Malays do not say it when cursing,,,, maybe there is no exact equivalent. Being a gentel race, maybe they do not curse... They may follow others[e.g. Westerners, and say "damn".... or " s**t...."Aiyah" [Chinese ]or just "Allah".... ( to express disappoitments, etc.)....I have heard "P**i ayam", or **** mak",[ translations from Western equivalents ?] but I believe this is in the very extreme, and very offensive.
Dato Sri Charlie
2013-06-06 21:29:56 UTC
closest thing is probably "alamak"



it means oh my god or something..



yeah you can utter it under your breath
Aaron Jeroen
2013-06-07 12:38:34 UTC
here in my areas, they always use 'cibai', 'lancao', 'du lan'


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