cacing tanah

Inherited from Malay cacing tanah.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃat͡ʃiŋ ˈtanah/ [ˌt͡ʃa.t͡ʃɪŋ ˈt̪a.nah]
• Rhymes: -anah
• Syllabification: ca‧cing ta‧nah

cacing tanah (plural cacing-cacing tanah)

1. earthworm

• →? Javanese: cacing lemah (calque)

• “cacing tanah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Compound of cacing (“worm”) +‎ tanah (“earth”).

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃat͡ʃiŋ ˈtanah/ [ˌt͡ʃa.t͡ʃiŋ ˈt̪a.nah]

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃat͡ʃeŋ ˈtanah/ [ˌt͡ʃa.t͡ʃeŋ ˈt̪a.nah]
• Rhymes: -ah
• Hyphenation: ca‧cing ta‧nah

cacing tanah (Jawi spelling چاچيڠ تانه, plural cacing-cacing tanah or cacing² tanah)

1. earthworm^[1]

   Synonym: cacing gulung (obsolete)

• > Indonesian: cacing tanah (inherited)
  • →? Javanese: cacing lemah (calque)
• →? Javanese: cacing lemah (calque)
• → Tausug: kalug lupa' (calque)

• "cacing tanah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017