tanggah
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaŋɡah/
- Hyphenation: tang‧gah
- Rhymes: -ɡah, -ah, -h
Etymology 1
From Malay tanggah, from Persian تنگه (tenge, “tenge, a piece of gold or silver”), from Old Turkic teg (“as, as much as, equal”), teŋ (“equivalent, balanced”), teŋe- (“compare, measure”).[1] Doublet of tenge.
Noun
tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)
- ancient Persian money
Noun
tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)
- synonym of penanggah
References
- Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading
- “tanggah” 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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