tumpah

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tumpah, from Proto-Malayic *tumpah, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tumpaq.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtumpah/ [ˈt̪um.pah]
  • Rhymes: -umpah
  • Syllabification: tum‧pah

Verb

tumpah

  1. (intransitive) to spill; to shed
    • 1924, Wage Rudolf Soepratman, “Indonesia Raya (National Anthem of Indonesia)”:
      Indonesia, tanah airku
      Tanah tumpah darahku
      Indonesia, my homeland
      The land where I shed my blood

References

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

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Ultimately from Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tumpaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtumpah/ [ˈt̪um.pah]
  • Hyphenation: tum‧pah

Verb

tumpah (Jawi spelling تومڤه)

  1. to spill