sepuluh

Iban

Iban cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sepuluh     Ordinal : kesepuluh

Alternative forms

• sepuloh

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *sA-puluh.

Numeral

sepuluh

1. ten

Indonesian

Indonesian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sepuluh

Alternative forms

• luh (clipping, colloquial)

Etymology

From Malay sepuluh, from Proto-Malayic *sA-puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sa-puluq, from Proto-Austronesian *sa-puluq. Equivalent to se- +‎ puluh.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈpuluh/ [səˈpu.lʊh]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uluh
• Syllabification: se‧pu‧luh

Numeral

sêpuluh

1. ten

Affixed terms

• persepuluhan

Further reading

• “sepuluh”, 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

Javanese

Romanization

sepuluh

1. romanization of ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦭꦸꦃ

Malay

Malay numbers ^(edit)

		100
[a], [b], [c], [d], [e] ←  1	[a], [b], [c] ←  9	10	20  →	100  →
		1[a], [b], [c], [d], [e]
Cardinal: puluh, sepuluh, ekadasa, dasa     Ordinal: kesepuluh     Fractional: persepuluh

Alternative forms

• satu puluh
• sĕpuloh, sapuloh, săpuloh (1924-1972)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *sA-puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sa-puluq, from Proto-Austronesian *sa-puluq. By surface analysis, se- +‎ puluh.

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

Pronunciation

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /səˈpuluh/ [səˈpu.luh]
• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /səˈpuloh/ [səˈpu.loh]

• Audio (Malaysia, Johor-Selangor):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uluh

Numeral

sepuluh (Jawi spelling سڤولوه)

1. ten

   Synonym: (uncommon) ekadasa

Descendants

• Indonesian: sepuluh
• North Moluccan Malay: sapulu, spulu