lumbung

English

Noun

lumbung (plural lumbungs)

1. A building on poles, used for the storage of rice in Indonesia.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lumbung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumbuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *lumbuŋ (“rice barn, granary”). Doublet of lombong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʊmbʊŋ/
• Hyphenation: lúm‧búng

Noun

lumbung (first-person possessive lumbungku, second-person possessive lumbungmu, third-person possessive lumbungnya)

1. rice barn, granary.

   Synonym: rangkiang

   Synonym: jelapang (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

• lumbung desa
• lumbung pangan

 

Descendants

• → Hokkien: 龍房／龙房 (liông-phông)

Further reading

• “lumbung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.