mistake in Malay
salah faham
/mɪˈsteɪk/UK[mɪˈsteɪk]
mistake in Malay: salah faham, kesilapan. In English, mistake means to understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Malay words for mistake
- to take one thing for another
- salah faham
- error — see also error
- kesilapan
English meaning of mistake
- verb To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- verb To misunderstand (someone).
- verb To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- verb To take or choose wrongly.
mistake in a sentence
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
- There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.
Synonyms of mistake
mistake in other languages
- mistake in Hindi
- mistake in Tamil
- mistake in Marathi
- mistake in Urdu
- mistake in Bengali
- mistake in Telugu
- mistake in Malayalam
- mistake in Kannada
- mistake in Punjabi
- mistake in Gujarati
- mistake in Odia
- mistake in Sanskrit
- mistake in Sinhala
- mistake in Assamese
- mistake in Nepali
- mistake in Pashto
- mistake in Tagalog
- mistake in Arabic
- mistake in Indonesian
- mistake in Thai
- mistake in Vietnamese
- mistake in Myanmar
Questions about mistake in Malay
- What is the meaning of mistake in Malay?
- Mistake in Malay is salah faham, kesilapan.
- Apakah maksud mistake dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Mistake: salah faham, kesilapan.
- What does mistake mean in English?
- Mistake means to understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mistake (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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