Teretet
from indonesia
Verified
Standard
noun
militer
Reduplication
From indonesia
Definition
Onomatopoeic sound resembling the blast of a machine gun or firearm, often used to depict rapid, continuous gunfire.
Etymology
Reduplicated form of 'teter' imitating gunfire sounds, common in spoken and literary Indonesian.
Semantic Category
Words that only or primarily exist in reduplicated form (e.g., gara-gara).
Reduplication