penanggalan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed tanggal +‎ peng- -an.

• Inherited from Malay penanggalan (“removal; a kind of ghost”)
• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦥꦤꦁꦒꦭꦤ꧀ (pananggalan, “calendar, almanac”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pənaŋˈɡalan/
• Hyphenation: pê‧nang‧gal‧an
• Rhymes: -an, -n

Noun

pênanggalan (plural penanggalan-penanggalan, first-person possessive penanggalanku, second-person possessive penanggalanmu, third-person possessive penanggalannya)

1. stripping, removal, renouncement, dismantling
2. a kind of ghost

Noun

pênanggalan (plural penanggalan-penanggalan, first-person possessive penanggalanku, second-person possessive penanggalanmu, third-person possessive penanggalannya)

1. calendar, almanac

   Synonyms: almanak, daftar hari bulan, kalender, takwim, tanggalan

2. dating (setting of a date; process of estimating the age of something)

   Synonym: pentarikhan (Standard Malay)

   penanggalan radiokarbon ― radiocarbon dating

3. date (day and month)

   Synonyms: datum, hari bulan, tanggal, tarikh

Further reading

• “penanggalan” 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.