lumbung
English
Noun
lumbung (plural lumbungs)
- 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)
- 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.