tebal
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay tebal, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tebel (“thick, of objects; dense, of crowds”), Proto-Mon-Khmer *tɓəl, *ɓəl (“thick”). Cognate with Javanese tebel.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittêbal
- thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tebal” 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.
Karao
editNoun
edittebal
Malay
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tebel (“thick, of objects; dense, of crowds”). Cognate with Javanese tebel and Malagasy matevina.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittebal (Jawi spelling تبل)
- thick
- strong (of faith, belief, ideal, etc.)
Affixations
editCompounds
editFurther reading
edit- “tebal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tebel₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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