tengah
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay tengah (“center”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]têngah (first-person possessive tengahku, second-person possessive tengahmu, third-person possessive tengahnya)
Derived terms
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]têngah
Adverb
[edit]têngah
- (auxiliary) progressive aspect without necessarily a final perspective.
- Synonym: sedang
Further reading
[edit]- “tengah” 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.
Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Javanese tĕngah.
Noun
[edit]tengah
Malay
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq. Cognate with Balinese tengah, Cebuano tunga; and distantly with Maori tonga (“south”), Samoan toga (“south”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /təŋah/
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /təŋäh/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /təŋah/
- Rhymes: -ŋah, -ah
Adverb
[edit]tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه)
- (colloquial) in the middle of doing, currently
- Synonym: sedang
- Kak Tam tengah buat apa, sekarang?
- What is Kak Tam doing right now?
- 2005 [1849], Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, edited by Amin Sweeney, Hikayat Abdullah (Karya Lengkap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi; 3)[1], Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, →ISBN, page 427:
- Maka pada masa itu aku tengah mengajar seorang2 saudagar di rumah Tuan John Morgan.
- Still at that time I was in the middle of teaching a merchant at the house of Lord John Morgan.
Noun
[edit]tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه, informal 1st possessive tengahku, 2nd possessive tengahmu, 3rd possessive tengahnya)
- middle, midst, centre
- Ada seekor beruang di tengah padang itu.
- There's a bear in the middle of the field.
Derived terms
[edit]Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
- setengah [comparability] (se-)
- pertengah [causative passive] (peR-)
- pertengahan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
- menengah [agent focus] (meN-)
- tengah-tengah [reduplication] (redup)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tengah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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