马来语学习Lesson 12 Warna (Colour)

原作者:哈森添加时间:2008-03-04 原文发表:2008-03-04 人气:60

A second reading (by Muhammad Nor Ismat, a native speaker)

Kereta saya biru (= My car is blue)
Apa warna kereta anda?
(= What is the colour of your car?)


kuning	hijau	hitam


biru	putih	merah


kelabu	ungu	coklat

For those who want to know more:

To make a colour darker all you have to do is to put the adjective tua (literally "old") after it. Example:
dark red = merah tua
dark blue = biru tua
dark yellow = kuning tua
dark green = hijau tua

Similarly to make a colour lighter all you have to do is to put the adjective muda (literally "young") after it. Example:
light green = hijau muda
light blue = biru muda
light yellow = kuning muda
light red = merah muda
By the way the Malay word for "pink" is also merah muda or merah jambu, "jambu" ("guava" or "rose apple" in English) being the name of a Malaysian fruit that is pink in colour (on the outside at least).

At times you might want to say that something has the tinge or shade of a certain colour (eg. reddish, yellowish, greenish, bluish, etc). It's quite simple to do this in Malay. Just repeat the colour word and add the prefix ke and the suffix an to it. Thus:
reddish = kemerah-merahan
yellowish = kekuning-kuningan
greenish = kehijau-hijauan
bluish = kebiru-biruan

Just as coklat takes its name from the colour of chocolate, the same is true for oren, which takes its name from the colour of orange. There is another word for this colour though and that is jingga.
Apart from coklat there is another word for "brown" in Malay and that is the word perang. Since chocolate is brown in colour I have used the word coklat but if you prefer the word perang make sure you pronounce it as pay-rang (if you know French it will help your pronunciation to see it spelt as pérang). Unfortunately in Malay you don't have the é to help you with the pronunciation and the same word perang, if it is pronounced pərang (pə has the schwa vowel sound ə as in "per cent") means "war" . So watch out, if you are not going to start a war, pronounce the word for "brown" as pay-rang and not pərang. But why take the risk when you can use coklat for the brown colour?

Orang putih means a person of the white race (see Lesson 4). It's not really pejorative or insulting, I can assure you. While on the subject the word for "foreigner" (i.e. anyone who is not a Malaysian) is orang asing.

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