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chialat

chialat is the alternative form of jialat.

Meaning of jialat

Adjective

jialat (comparative more jialat, superlative most jialat)

  1. (Manglish, Singlish, archaic, original sense) Sapping one’s strength; tiresome.
    • wah lao...... jialat ahhhh you.1997 October 19, Thye Hoon Lin, “Singapore Ties to Heroin Traffickers: News Release”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet)
  2. (Manglish, Singlish, broadly) Terrible, disastrous; (of a person) affected by difficulties, in a dire situation.
    • Jialat, jialat (very serious). This one jialat. Tell me about it man. Did you use it?2006, Elangovan, Smegma, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25

Forms of chialat

comparativemore chialat
superlativemost chialat

Origin of chialat

Borrowed from Hokkien 食力 (chia̍h-la̍t, “to be exhausting”).

Questions about chialat

What is chialat the alternative form of?
Chialat is the alternative form of jialat.

Words near chialat in the dictionary

  1. chiacking
  2. chiacks
  3. Chiahsien
  4. Chiai
  5. Chiajna
  6. chialat
  7. chialoup
  8. chialoups
  9. Chiamai
  10. Chiamay
  11. Chiammay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chialat (page history and authors); jialat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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