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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tebal, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tebel (“thick, of objects; dense, of crowds”), Proto-Mon-Khmer *tɓəl, *ɓəl (“thick”). Cognate with Javanese tebel.
Pronunciation
Adjective
têbal
- thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
Derived terms
Further reading
Karao
Noun
tebal
- conversation; discussion; talk
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tebel (“thick, of objects; dense, of crowds”). Cognate with Javanese tebel and Malagasy matevina.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tebal (Jawi spelling تبل)
- thick
- having a great side-to-side measurement; broad, wide
- Synonym: lebar
- Antonyms: nipis, tipis
- buku tebal ― thick book
- bold, chunky (of handwriting or lines)
- tulisan tebal ― thick handwriting
- fon tebal ― bold font
- dense, murky (of clouds and fogs, etc.)
- Synonyms: padat, tumpat
- awan tebal ― thick cloud
- bushy, heavy, jungly (of hair, foliage, grass, etc.)
- Synonym: lebat
- rambut tebal ― thick hair
- strong (of faith, belief, ideal, etc.)
- Synonyms: kuat, kukuh, teguh
- kepercayaan tebal ― strong belief
Affixations
Compounds
Further reading
- “tebal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tebel₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI