tamba

Javanese

Romanization

tamba

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧ

Malay

Alternative forms

• tambah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamba(h)/
• Rhymes: -ambah, -bah, -ah

Verb

tamba (1701, used in the form menamba)

1. (1924-1972) Obsolete spelling of tambah

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam.ba/
• Rhymes: -ba
• Hyphenation: tam‧ba

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambar (“antidote”) (compare Malay tawar (“tasteless”), Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambal (“to mend, to patch”)).

Noun

tamba

1. cure, remedy, medicine

   Synonyms: jampi, jampyan, oṣadha, oṣadhi, tamba, tambā, uṣadha, uwat, waidya, wedya

Alternative forms

• tambā

Derived terms

• anamba
• anambani
• panamban
• pratamba
• tambana
• tan patamban
• tinamban
• tumamba
• tumambani

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧ (tamba)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Root

tamba

1. tardy, slow

Derived terms

• atamban

 

Further reading

• "tamba" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.