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Iban
Pronunciation
IPA(key):
Noun
tabung
- container (used to fill any liquid)
- thermos
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tabung, probably from Semelai tabong (“container”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *[ ]b[oo]ŋ (“feeding-trough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ta‧bung
Noun
tabung (plural tabung-tabung, first-person possessive tabungku, second-person possessive tabungmu, third-person possessive tabungnya)
- tube: anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- cylinder:
- (geometry) a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve; a solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
- Synonym: silinder
- any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- Synonym: silinder
- tabung gas ― gas cylinder
- (probably dated) bamboo section.
- Synonym: bumbung
- (dated or archaic) box (mailbox, etc)
- Synonym: bis
- (obsolete) piggy bank, traditionally made from bamboo
- Synonyms: celengan, tabungan
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Malay
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ta‧bung
- Rhymes: -uŋ
Noun
tabung (informal 1st possessive tabungku, 2nd possessive tabungmu, 3rd possessive tabungnya) (jawi translation تابوڠ)
- piggy bank
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