lumbung

English

Noun

lumbung (plural lumbungs)

A building on poles, used for the storage of rice in Indonesia.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lumbung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumbuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *lumbuŋ (“rice barn, granary”). Doublet of lombong.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlʊmbʊŋ/
Hyphenation: lúm‧búng

Noun

lumbung (first-person possessive lumbungku, second-person possessive lumbungmu, third-person possessive lumbungnya)

rice barn, granary.
Synonym: rangkiang

Synonym: jelapang (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

lumbung desa
lumbung pangan

Descendants

→ Hokkien: 龍房／龙房 (liông-phông)

Further reading

“lumbung” 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.

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