hantu
See also: Hán tự
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay hantu, from Proto-Malayic *hantu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhan.tu/
- Rhymes: -tu, -u
- Hyphenation: han‧tu
Noun
hantu (plural hantu-hantu, first-person possessive hantuku, second-person possessive hantumu, third-person possessive hantunya)
- ghost (spirit appearing after death)
Derived terms
- berhantu
- dihantui
- hantu-hantuan
- menghantu
- menghantui
- hantu air
- hantu angin
- hantu api
- hantu aru-aru
- hantu badai
- hantu beliau
- hantu blau
- hantu bungkus
- hantu bunian
- hantu denah
- hantu golek
- hantu gunung
- hantu haru-haru
- hantu jembalang
- hantu kangkung ngeang-ngeang
- hantu kocong
- hantu laut
- hantu pemburu
- hantu pocong
- hantu puaka
- hantu raya
- hantu rimba
- hantu runjung
- hantu suluh
- hantu sungai
- hantu tanah
- hantu tuyul
Further reading
- “hantu” 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.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *hantu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hantu/
- Rhymes: -antu, -tu, -u
Noun
hantu (Jawi spelling هنتو, plural hantu-hantu, informal 1st possessive hantuku, 2nd possessive hantumu, 3rd possessive hantunya)
Derived terms
- burung hantu (“owl”)
- kera hantu (“tarsier”)
Descendants
- Indonesian: hantu
Further reading
- “hantu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- हन्तु (Devanagari script)
- হন্তু (Bengali script)
- හන්තු (Sinhalese script)
- ဟန္တု or ႁၼ္တု or ႁၼ်တု (Burmese script)
- หนฺตุ or หันตุ (Thai script)
- ᩉᨶ᩠ᨲᩩ (Tai Tham script)
- ຫນ຺ຕຸ or ຫັນຕຸ (Lao script)
- ហន្តុ (Khmer script)
- 𑄦𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄪 (Chakma script)
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