tanggah
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)
- ancient Persian money
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)
- synonym of penanggah
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- “tanggah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.