mereka

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /məˈreka/ [məˈre.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: me‧re‧ka

From Malay mereka, from earlier mareka, from Old Javanese marika. Displaced Proto-Malayic *sida(ʔ) (whence Iban sida).

mêreka

1. Third person plural personal pronoun: they, them, their

   Mereka akan mengunjungi rumah kita.

   They will visit our house.

   Sekolah mereka bersih.

   Their school is clean.

From reka (“to arrange, create”).

mêreka

1. active of reka

• “mereka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /mərekə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /məreka/
• Rhymes: -ekə, -kə, -ə

• Audio (Malaysia, Johor-Selangor):

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From Old Javanese marika.

mereka (Jawi spelling مريک)

1. they

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[1], Pacific Linguistics, →DOI

me- +‎ reka

mereka

1. active of reka