datang

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• dateng (informal)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay datang, from Classical Malay داتڠ (datang), from Proto-Malayic *datəŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdataŋ/ [ˈda.t̪aŋ]

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• Rhymes: -ataŋ
• Syllabification: da‧tang

Verb

datang (intransitive, does not take voice prefixes)

1. to come

   Kami datang ke toko ini untuk membeli buku pembelajaran.

   We came to this shop to buy learning books.

2. to arrive

   Synonym: tiba

   Dia nanti datang setelah sore. ― He will arrive later in the afternoon.

Usage notes

• Used in the greeting selamat datang (“welcome”).
• Colloquially and dialectally, datang can be used as a transitive verb by means of leaving out the preposition ke (“to”):

Kapan datang Jakarta? - When do [you] come [to] Jakarta?

Derived terms

Affixations

• berdatang
• berdatangan
• datang-datang
• datang-mendatangi
• kedatangan (“arrival”)
• mendatang (“next; following; future; upcoming”)
• mendatangi (“to come”)
• mendatangkan
• pendatang (“comer”)
• pendatangan

Further reading

• “datang”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Kapampangan

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ.

Verb

datang

1. to come

Malay

Alternative forms

• dtg (SMS slang)

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Malay داتڠ (datang), from Proto-Malayic *datəŋ, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ. Compare with Tagalog dating (“arrival”) & Tausug datung (“to arrive”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (dātaṃ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdataŋ/ [ˈda.t̪aŋ]
• Rhymes: -ataŋ, -taŋ, -aŋ

Verb

datang (Jawi spelling داتڠ)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

   Synonym: mari

   Antonym: pergi

Derived terms

Affixations

• berdatang
• berdatangan
• datang-datang
• datang-mendatangi
• kedatangan (“arrival”)
• mendatang
• mendatangi (“to come”)
• mendatangkan
• pendatang (“immigrant; derogatory term for Malaysian citizen of Chinese or Indian descent”)
• pendatangan

Descendants

• > Indonesian: datang (inherited)

Further reading

• "datang" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017