untung

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay untung, from Classical Malay ontong, untung, from Proto-Malayic *untuŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊntʊŋ]
• Hyphenation: un‧tung
• Rhymes: -untʊŋ, -tʊŋ, -ʊŋ

Noun

untung (plural untung-untung)

1. gain (what one gains (profit))
2. profit
3. synonym of mujur, bahagia (“luck”)
4. synonym of faedah, guna, manfaat (“use”)

Derived terms

• beruntung
• beruntung-untung
• keberuntungan
• keuntungan
• menguntungkan
• peruntung
• peruntungan
• seberuntung-beruntungnya
• untung-untung
• untung-untungan

• untung batu
• untung malang
• untung sabut
• untung sero

Further reading

• “untung”, 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 *untuŋ (compare Indonesian untung), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ (compare Māori utu, Hawaiian uku).

Pronunciation

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈuntuŋ/ [ˈʔun̪.t̪uŋ]

• (Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈuntoŋ/ [ˈʔun̪.t̪oŋ]
• Rhymes: -untoŋ, -toŋ, -oŋ

Noun

untung (Jawi spelling اونتوڠ, plural untung-untung or untung²)

1. gain (what one gains (profit))

Descendants

• Indonesian: untung

Further reading

• "untung" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Yakan

Noun

untung

1. profit