danru

Indonesian

Noun

danru (first-person possessive danruku, second-person possessive danrumu, third-person possessive danrunya)

1. short for komandan regu (“squad commander”).

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Oghuz *taŋrï, Proto-Turkic *teŋri. Cognate with Azerbaijani tanrı, Turkish tanrı, Turkmen taňry, also Western Yugur dengir, deñri (“sky”).

Pronunciation

• (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /tɑnru/

Noun

danru (dialectal)

1. god

   Synonym: huda

Usage notes

• Tenishev recorded tanru as Бог in 1976 Mengda. It does not appear to be recorded in other works used in Wiktionary.

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “tanru”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 501