ตุนาหงัน

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Thai

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Malay tunangan (fiancé; fiancée) or Javanese tunangan (fiancé; fiancée).[1]

Pronunciation

Orthographicตุนาหงัน
t u n ā h ŋ ạ n
Phonemic
ตุ-นา-หฺงัน
t u – n ā – h ̥ ŋ ạ n
RomanizationPaiboondtù-naa-ngǎn
Royal Institutetu-na-ngan
(standard) IPA(key)/tu˨˩.naː˧.ŋan˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

ตุนาหงัน (dtù-naa-ngǎn) (classifier คน)

  1. (literary, poetic) engaged person: fiancé, fiancée, etc.

Verb

ตุนาหงัน (dtù-naa-ngǎn)

  1. (literary, poetic) to engage for marriage.

References

  1. ^ "tunangan" in Elinor Clark Horne, Javanese-English Dictionary. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1974