terung

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Brooke's Point Palawano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay terung

Noun

terung

  1. eggplant; aubergine (fruit of the plant)

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay terung

Pronunciation

Noun

terung

  1. eggplant; brinjal; aubergine (Solanum melongena) (fruit of the plant)

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay terung (compare to Javanese ꦠꦺꦫꦺꦴꦁ (térong)), ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁rɗuŋ, *d₁rɗuəŋ (“egg-plant, bottle-gourd”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

têrung

  1. (formal or dialectal) Alternative form of terong (“eggplant, aubergine”)

References

  1. ^ H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC

Malay

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁rɗuŋ, *d₁rɗuəŋ (“egg-plant, bottle-gourd”)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

terung (Jawi spelling تروڠ, plural terung-terung, informal 1st possessive terungku, 2nd possessive terungmu, 3rd possessive terungnya)

  1. aubergine, brinjal, eggplant; plant belonging to the family Solanaceae and genus Solanum that produces edible fruits

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

Descendants

  • Indonesian: terung
  • → Brooke's Point Palawano: terung
  • → Cebuano: talong, tawong
  • → Hiligaynon: talong
  • → Iban: terung
  • → Javanese: térong
  • → Tagalog: talong
  • → Waray-Waray: tarong

References

  1. ^ H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 196
  • Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ترڠ tĕrong”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 77
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ترڠ tĕrong”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 162
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “tĕrong”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 578-9

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