tengah

From Malay tengah (“center”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: tê‧ngah

têngah (first-person possessive tengahku, second-person possessive tengahmu, third-person possessive tengahnya)

1. middle
2. centre, center

   Synonym: pusat

3. half

   Synonyms: paruh, perdua

têngah

1. while: during the same time that.

   Synonyms: ketika, sementara

têngah

1. (auxiliary) progressive aspect without necessarily a final perspective.

   Synonym: sedang

• “tengah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Javanese tĕngah.

tengah

1. middle
2. center
3. navel

• tgah, tgh (SMS slang)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq. Cognate with Balinese tengah, Cebuano tunga; and distantly with Maori tonga (“south”), Samoan toga (“south”)

• IPA^(key): /təŋah/
• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /təŋäh/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /təŋah/
• Rhymes: -ŋah, -ah

tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه)

1. (colloquial) in the middle of doing, currently

   Synonym: sedang

   Kak Tam tengah buat apa, sekarang?

   What is Kak Tam doing right now?

   • 2005 [1849], Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, edited by Amin Sweeney, Hikayat Abdullah (Karya Lengkap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi; 3)‎, Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, →ISBN, page 427:

     Maka pada masa itu aku tengah mengajar seorang2 saudagar di rumah Tuan John Morgan.

     Still at that time I was in the middle of teaching a merchant at the house of Lord John Morgan.

tengah (Jawi spelling تڠه, informal 1st possessive tengahku, 2nd possessive tengahmu, 3rd possessive tengahnya)

1. middle, midst, centre

   Ada seekor beruang di tengah padang itu.

   There's a bear in the middle of the field.

• pusat

• “tengah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.