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Old Javanese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /man.tən/
- Hyphenation: man‧tĕn
Etymology 1
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Noun
mantĕn
- a specific type of precious stone (possibly emerald)
Etymology 2
Affixed mari, māri (“to cease”) + -ntĕn. Doublet of mantun.
Verb
mantĕn
- to cease
Descendants
Further reading
- "mantĕn" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.