tengah
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tengah (“center”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [təˈŋah]
- Hyphenation: tê‧ngah
Noun
têngah (first-person possessive tengahku, second-person possessive tengahmu, third-person possessive tengahnya)
- middle
- centre, center
- Synonym: pusat
- half
- Synonyms: paruh, perdua
Derived terms
- diketengahi
- diketengahkan
- ditengahi
- menengah
- menengahi
- mengetengahi
- mengetengahkan
- penengah
- pertengahan
- setengah
- setengah-setengah
- tengahan
- ke tengah
- tengah hari
- tengah kanan
- tengah kiri
- tengah malam
- tengah naik
- tengah pusat
- tengah tahunan
- garis tengah
- jari tengah
Conjunction
têngah
- while: during the same time that.
- Synonyms: ketika, sementara
Adverb
têngah
- (auxiliary) progressive aspect without necessarily a final perspective.
- Synonym: sedang
Further reading
- “tengah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Etymology
From Old Javanese tĕngah.
Noun
tengah
- middle
- center
- navel
Malay
Alternative forms
- tgah, tgh (SMS slang)
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq. Cognate with Balinese tengah, Cebuano tunga; and distantly with Maori tonga (“south”), Samoan toga (“south”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təŋah/
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /təŋäh/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /təŋah/
- Rhymes: -ŋah, -ah
Adverb
tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه)
- (colloquial) in the middle of doing, currently
- Kak Tam tengah buat apa, sekarang?
- What is Kak Tam doing right now?
- Synonym: sedang
- 2005 [1849], Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, Amin Sweeney, editor, Hikayat Abdullah (Karya Lengkap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi; 3), Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, →ISBN, page 427:
- Maka pada masa itu aku tengah mengajar seorang2 saudagar di rumah Tuan John Morgan.
- Still at that time I was in the middle of teaching a merchant at the house of Lord John Morgan.
Noun
tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه, informal 1st possessive tengahku, 2nd possessive tengahmu, 3rd possessive tengahnya)
- middle, midst, centre
- Ada seekor beruang di tengah padang itu.
- There's a bear in the middle of the field.
Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
- setengah [comparability] (se-)
- pertengah [causative passive] (peR-)
- pertengahan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
- menengah [agent focus] (meN-)
- tengah-tengah [reduplication] (redup)
See also
- pusat
Further reading
- “tengah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.