tarah

See also: Tarah

Big Nambas

Noun

tarah

1. (used by women in circumstances where nauei was taboo) water

Synonyms

• nauei (usual term)

References

• The Oceanic Languages (2013, →ISBN, citing Fox 1996

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tarah, from Proto-Malayic *tarah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *taʀaq (“to hew wood with an adze”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtarah/ [ˈt̪a.rah]
• Rhymes: -arah
• Syllabification: ta‧rah

Verb

tarah

1. (stative) to be planed (of a piece of wood)

Derived terms

• bertarah
• ditarah
• menarah
• penarah
• penarahan
• tarahan

Further reading

• “tarah”, 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

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tarah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *taʀaq (“to hew wood with an adze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtarah/ [ˈt̪a.rah]
• Hyphenation: ta‧rah

Verb

tarah (Jawi spelling تاره)

1. to smooth or level wood with a knife
2. planing with an adze; shaping, rough-hewing

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• penarah [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• penarahan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• tarahan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• menarah [agent focus] (meN-)
• ditarah [patient focus] (di-)
• tertarah [agentless action] (teR-)
• bertarah [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tarah

Further reading

• “tarah”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017