tengah
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay tengah (“center”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
têngah (first-person possessive tengahku, second-person possessive tengahmu, third-person possessive tengahnya)
Derived terms edit
Conjunction edit
têngah
Adverb edit
têngah
- (auxiliary) progressive aspect without necessarily a final perspective.
- Synonym: sedang
Further reading edit
- “tengah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Javanese tĕngah.
Noun edit
tengah
Malay edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq. Cognate with Balinese tengah, Cebuano tunga; and distantly with Maori tonga (“south”), Samoan toga (“south”)
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /təŋah/
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /təŋäh/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /təŋah/
- Rhymes: -ŋah, -ah
Adverb edit
tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه)
- (colloquial) in the middle of doing, currently
- Synonym: sedang
- Kak Tam tengah buat apa, sekarang?
- What is Kak Tam doing right now?
- 2005 [1849], Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, edited by Amin Sweeney, Hikayat Abdullah (Karya Lengkap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi; 3)[1], Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, →ISBN, page 427:
- Maka pada masa itu aku tengah mengajar seorang2 saudagar di rumah Tuan John Morgan.
- Still at that time I was in the middle of teaching a merchant at the house of Lord John Morgan.
Noun edit
tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه, informal 1st possessive tengahku, 2nd possessive tengahmu, 3rd possessive tengahnya)
- middle, midst, centre
- Ada seekor beruang di tengah padang itu.
- There's a bear in the middle of the field.
Derived terms edit
Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
- setengah [comparability] (se-)
- pertengah [causative passive] (peR-)
- pertengahan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
- menengah [agent focus] (meN-)
- tengah-tengah [reduplication] (redup)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “tengah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.