tahan

See also: tähän

English

Etymology

From Malay tahan.

Verb

tahan (third-person singular simple present tahans, present participle tahaning, simple past and past participle tahaned)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) To endure; to bear.
   • 2017, Wong Kim Hoh, It Changed My Life: What Tan Swie Hian wants - a free mind, The Sunday Times

     "Many local artists cannot tahan me," he says, using the Malay word for "tolerate". "If you live next to Picasso, can you tahan or not?"

   • 2017, Zhangxin Zheng, Here’s why you shouldn’t be alarmed by pictures of “flooding” in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Mothership.sg

     The 3.2km meandering naturalised river at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park used to be a 2.7 km long straight concrete Kallang channel in the past, which would not otherwise have been able to tahan as much rainwater as it now does.

   • 2017, 8 Things Malaysians Immediately Do When They Get a New Car... Which One Have You Done?, CILISOS (Current Issues Tambah Pedas)

     If you’re buying a new car, especially a better one than your previous, it’s gonna be able to tahan your need for speed. Step on the pedal only la, why so kancheong?

Anagrams

• Ahtna, Anath, Athan, athan, tanah, tanha, thana

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Estonian

Verb

tahan

1. first-person singular present indicative of tahtma

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Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.han/
• Hyphenation: ta‧han

Etymology 1

From Proto-Austronesian *taqan (“to hold back, to keep in reserve”). Cognate with Tagalog taan (“to reserve, to save for other people for some future time”).

Verb

tahan (Jawi spelling تاهن)

1. to endure, to bear, to withstand, to resist

   tahan lapar ― to endure hunger

   tahan sakit ― to endure the pain

2. to be lasting, to be persisting (in)
3. to be sufficient (for a certain period)
4. (of an object) to be firm, to be strong
5. (of a disease) to improve, to be on the mend

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• bertahan (“to be holding fast to”) [stative / habitual] (beR-)
• dipertahankan (“to be persisted”) [causative passive + patient focus + causative benefactive] (peR- + di- + -kan)
• pertahan (“to be held back”) [causative passive] (peR-)
• pertahani (“to be controlled”) [causative passive + causative (locative) benefactive] (peR- + -i)
• pertahankan (“to be endured”) [causative passive + causative benefactive] (peR- + -kan)
• ketahanan (“defensiveness; durability”) [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• memertahankan (“to maintain; to preserve”) [causative passive + agent focus + causative benefactive] (peR- + meN- + -kan)
• menahan (“to block; to hold back”) [agent focus] (meN-)
• menahani (“to block; to control”) [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
• menahankan (“to make something durable”) [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• penahan (“defender”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• penahanan (“defending; controlling”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• pertahan (“defence”) [causative passive] (peR-)
• tahanan (“hindrance; obstacle”) [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• tahankan (“to cause something or someone to block”) [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• tertahan (“to be able to block”) [agentless action] (teR-)
• tertahani (“to be controllable”) [agentless action + causative (locative) benefactive] (teR- + -i)
• tertahan-tahan (“(already be) off and on; disjointed(ly)”) [reduplication + agentless action] (redup + teR-)

Descendants

• → English: tahan

Etymology 2

From Proto-Austronesian *taqan, *taqen (“to set a trap, to set a snare”). Cognate with Tagalog taan (“a kind of fish trap used for catching fish on coral reefs”).

Verb

tahan (Jawi spelling تاهن)

1. to cast a net (to catch fish), to set a trap (to catch animal, fish, etc.)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• tertahan (“(already be) cast a net”) [agentless action] (teR-)

Etymology 3

Noun

tahan (Jawi spelling تاهن, plural tahan-tahan, informal 1st possessive tahanku, 2nd possessive tahanmu, 3rd possessive tahannya)

1. (navigation) a rope installed from the top of a mast to the rear of a boat

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Tagalog

Verb

tahan

1. to stop crying