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memberasangkan

English translation: robust; encouraging

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Malay term or phrase:memberasangkan
English translation:robust; encouraging
Entered by: yam2u

20:50 Oct 30, 2012
Malay to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Malay term or phrase: memberasangkan
This is in a survey about petrol. I cannot find this word anywhere. Is it a misspelling? The context is:

Syarikat itu memberi prestasi yang memberasangkan walaupun ada kekurangan di sebalik content bahan api yg dimasukkan
Graham Benne (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:23
robust; encouraging
Explanation:

from the word berangsang meaning to encourage to action or to inflame.

root word: rangsang
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yam2u
United States
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4 +3robust; encouraging
yam2u


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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
robust; encouraging


Explanation:

from the word berangsang meaning to encourage to action or to inflame.

root word: rangsang

yam2u
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in MalayMalay, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cassius Duwin: Since I believe it was a handwritten answer thus the word 'memberasangkan' is actually 'memberangsangkan'.
53 mins
  -> thank you cassius for pointing out that the source word appeared to be misspelled.
agree  Naim Jalil
6 hrs
agree  Hideko
75 days
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