ꦠꦸꦩ꧀

Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese tum (“to cook by warping by banana leaf then steamed”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁um (“to boil, to distil”) (compare Thai ต้ม (dtôm, “to boil”), Khmer ដាំ (dam, “to boil”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊm/
• Rhymes: -tum
• Hyphenation: tum

Verb

ꦠꦸꦩ꧀ (tum)

1. (cooking) to cook by warping by banana leaf then steamed

Further reading

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “tum”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN