Etymology

Affixation of kontrol +‎ meng-Category:Indonesian terms prefixed with meng-#MENGONTROL.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /məˈŋontrol/ [məˈŋon̪.t̪rɔl]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#MENGONTROLCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#MENGONTROL
• Rhymes: -ontrolCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ontrol#MENGONTROLCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ontrol/3 syllables#MENGONTROL
• Syllabification: me‧ngon‧trol

Verb

mengontrol (active mengontrol, reflexive passive terkontrol, ordinary passive dikontrol, emphatic-jussive kontrollah)Category:Indonesian lemmas#MENGONTROLCategory:Indonesian verbs#MENGONTROLCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#MENGONTROLCategory:Pages with entries#MENGONTROLCategory:Pages with 1 entry#MENGONTROL

1. to control:
   1. (transitiveCategory:Indonesian transitive verbs#MENGONTROL) to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of
   2. (transitiveCategory:Indonesian transitive verbs#MENGONTROL, statisticsCategory:id:Statistics#MENGONTROL) to design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated
   3. (transitiveCategory:Indonesian transitive verbs#MENGONTROL) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain

Further reading

• “mengontrol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016