tanggah

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋɡah/
• Hyphenation: tang‧gah
• Rhymes: -ɡah, -ah, -h

Etymology 1

From Malay tanggah, from Persian تنگه (tenge, “tenge, a piece of gold or silver”), from Old Turkic teg (“as, as much as, equal”), teŋ (“equivalent, balanced”), teŋe- (“compare, measure”). Doublet of tenge.

Noun

tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)

1. ancient Persian money

Etymology 2

Noun

tanggah (plural tanggah-tanggah, first-person possessive tanggahku, second-person possessive tanggahmu, third-person possessive tanggahnya)

1. synonym of penanggah

Further reading

• “tanggah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.