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Meaning of sumpah | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
ˈsumpa

Definitions

To promise; to earnestly swear that something is true.

Manglish, Singlish, intransitive, invariable

Examples

“I don’t know anything about this scandal — sumpah.”
“I sumpah (promise) mak! Anybody can come to see you mak. I won’t tell bapak mak. If you are happy, I am happy mak. Don’t kill me mak.”
“And because of the gravity of the matter, I voluntarily made my submissions to the Ministerial Committee in the form of sworn statutory declarations or, as they say in the coffee shops – sumpah.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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