timpu
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Tausug
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Malay tempoh, tempo, from Classical Malay تمڤه (tempoh), Dutch tempo from Italian tempo, or from Portuguese tempo, ultimately from Latin tempus (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]timpu (Jawi spelling تِمْپُ)
- climatic season, season (of the occurrence of something which occurs at intervals)
- a period of time
- Timpu Jipun siya piyagꞌanak.
- He was born during the Japanese period.
- Synonym: masa
- the length of time one stays in prison
- Pila tahun in timpu mu?
- How many years will be your length of time in jail?
- Synonym: lugay
Derived terms
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- Tausug terms borrowed from Malay
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- Tausug terms derived from Dutch
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- Tausug terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Tausug terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tausug/u
- Rhymes:Tausug/u/2 syllables
- Tausug lemmas
- Tausug nouns
- Tausug terms with Jawi script
- Tausug terms with usage examples