melainkan
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay melainkan, from Classical Malay melainkan. Equivalent to lain + meng- -kan.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -kan
Verb
editmelainkan (passive dilainkan)
- to differentiate
- to alienate, to segregate, to separate
Conjunction
editmelainkan
- but rather
- 2014, Alwi Alatas, Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III [Saladin and The Third Crusade], Zikrul Hakim, page 230:
- Tampaknya Shalahuddin mengetahui bahwa kelompok Assassin tidak bertindak sendiri, melainkan atas permintaan lawan-lawan Shalahuddin di Aleppo dan Mosul.
- Apparently Saladin knew that the Assassins didn't act alone [as their own will], but rather upon Saladin's competitors' request at Aleppo and Mosul.
- only, except
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