bantal

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bantal (bundle of cloth or clothes).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bantal/
  • Hyphenation: ban‧tal

Noun

bantal

  1. pillow (soft cushion used to support the head in bed)

Hyponyms

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bantal”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay bantal, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bantal (bundle of cloth or clothes).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbantal/ [ˈban̪.t̪al]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -antal
  • Syllabification: ban‧tal

Noun

bantal (plural bantal-bantal)

  1. pillow (soft cushion used to support the head in bed)

Derived terms

  • bantal golek
  • bantal guling
  • bantal kampuh
  • bantal kursi
  • bantal menyusui
  • bantal peang
  • bantal peluk
  • bantal seraga
  • bantal sofa
  • bantal suari
  • bantal udara

Further reading

Javanese

Javanese writing system
Carakan ꦧꦤ꧀ꦠꦭ
Pegon
Roman

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese bantal (a bundle of cloth), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bantal (bundle of cloth or clothes).

Noun

bantal (krama ngoko bantal)

  1. pillow

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bantal”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbantal/ [ˈban.t̪al]
  • Rhymes: -antal, -ntal, -al

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bantal (bundle of cloth or clothes).

Noun

bantal (Jawi spelling بنتل, plural bantal-bantal)

  1. pillow (soft cushion used to support the head in bed)
  2. measurement of the amount of thread
Derived terms
Descendants
  • > Indonesian: bantal (inherited)

Etymology 2

Possibly from the clipping of ular danu berbantal.[1]

Noun

bantal (Jawi spelling بنتل, plural bantal-bantal)

  1. (Perak, obsolete) rainbow
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pelangi

References

  1. ^ Walter William Skeat (1900) chapter 1, in Malay Magic[1], page 15

Further reading

  • bantal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bantal”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tiruray

Noun

bantal

  1. floor joist