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)

  1. ancient Persian money

Noun

tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)

  1. synonym of penanggah

References

  1. 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

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