terung

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

  • IPA(key): /təˈrʊŋ/

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

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təˈruŋ/ [t̪əˈruŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uŋ
  • Syllabification: te‧rung

Noun

têrung

  1. (formal or dialectal) alternative form of terong (eggplant, aubergine)

References

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

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /tə.roŋ/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /tə.rʊŋ/
  • Rhymes: -roŋ, -oŋ

Noun

terung (Jawi spelling تروڠ, plural terung-terung)

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

Derived terms

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[2], 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

Further reading