Meanings
- ManglishSinglishintransitiveinvariableTo promise; to earnestly swear that something is true.
I don’t know anything about this scandal — sumpah.
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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.
2004, Elangovan, O$P$, Singapore, →ISBN, page 16And 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.
2017 July 4, Lee Hsien Loong, “38 Oxley Road (Debate on Ministerial Statements)”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 94
Origin
- Malaysumpah“to swear, to make a promise”
- Englishsumpah
Unadapted borrowing from Malay sumpah (“to swear, to make a promise”).
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