tempur
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təmˈpʊr/
- Hyphenation: têm‧pur
Etymology 1
Inherited from Malay tempur, from Classical Malay تمڤور (tempur), from Old Javanese tĕmpur (“to knock against each other, to clash and become one heap or mass”), tampur, tampuh (“hitting; object, target, destination”), pūh (“broken, crushed, smashed”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *puh (“to slap, hit”) (compare Jehai poh (“to hit with a flat hand”), Khmer បុះ (boh, “to hit”)). Doublet of tempuh.
Verb
têmpur
- alternative form of menempur (“to attack, to violate”)
Derived terms
- bertempur
- mempertempurkan
- menempur
- penempur
- pertempuran
- petempur
- pesawat tempur
Etymology 2
From Javanese ꦠꦼꦩ꧀ꦥꦸꦂ (tempur, “confluence”), from the same Old Javanese tĕmpur.
Noun
têmpur (first-person possessive tempurku, second-person possessive tempurmu, third-person possessive tempurnya)
- alternative form of tempuran (“confluence: the place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river”).
Etymology 3
From Javanese ꦠꦼꦩ꧀ꦥꦸꦂ (tempur, “to buy up dehusked rice”) and Sundanese [Term?], from the same Old Javanese tĕmpur.
Verb
têmpur
- alternative form of menempur (“to buy daily rice; to buy paddy for selling rice”).
Further reading
- “tempur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.