Meaning of Reduplication | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
   countable, uncountable
2. The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.”

“Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]”

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