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
- (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
- Indonesia, my homeland
References
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tumpaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Further reading
- “tumpah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
Ultimately from Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tumpaq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtumpah/ [ˈt̪um.pah]
- Hyphenation: tum‧pah
Verb
tumpah (Jawi spelling تومڤه)
- to spill