titah

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.tah/
  • Rhymes: -tah
  • Hyphenation: ti‧tah

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay titah. Compare Javanese ꦠꦶꦠꦃ (titah, pronouncement, order; destiny; creation; creature).

Noun

titah (plural titah-titah)

  1. royal order, royal command
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦠꦺꦠꦃ (tétah, to hold children as they learn to walk).

Verb

titah

  1. to hold children as they learn to walk
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • menitah
  • menitah-nitah

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

titah

  1. romanization of ꦠꦶꦠꦃ

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /titah/
  • Rhymes: -itah, -tah, -ah
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [ˈt̪i.t̪äh]

Noun

titah (Jawi spelling تيته, plural titah-titah)

  1. decree, commandment

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: titah

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.tah/
  • Rhymes: -tah
  • Hyphenation: ti‧tah

Noun

titah

  1. arrangement, ordering, formation, disposition
  2. fixed condition, preordained state, predestination

Derived terms

  • anitah
  • atitah
  • panitah
  • patitah
  • tinitah
  • tumitah

Descendants

Further reading

  • "titah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.