delapan

See also: dĕlapan

Indonesian

Indonesian cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : delapan

Alternative forms

  • lapan (colloquial)
  • pan (clipping, colloquial)

Etymology

From Malay delapan, from Proto-Malayic *dua(ʔ) alap-an.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /dəˈlapan/ [dəˈla.pan]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -apan
  • Syllabification: de‧la‧pan

Numeral

dêlapan

  1. eight
    Synonyms: asta, selapan (rare), walu (rare, archaic)

Further reading

Malay

Malay numbers (edit)
80
[a], [b] ←  7 8 9  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: delapan, selapan, lapan, asta
    Ordinal: kelapan
    Fractional: perlapan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dua(ʔ) alap-an, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Austronesian *alap (fetch, get, take). Doublet of alap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəˈlapan/ [dəˈla.pan]
  • Rhymes: -apan, -pan, -an
  • Hyphenation: de‧la‧pan

Numeral

delapan (Jawi spelling دلاڤن)

  1. (now chiefly Indonesia) eight[n 1]
    Synonyms: selapan (rare), asta (only in certain Sanskrit constructions)

Usage notes

  1. ^ This form is now only mainly used in Indonesian and in the Indonesian varieties of Malay. In the Malay of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, the usual form used is lapan.

References

  • Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “دلاڤن doelapan”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 127
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “دلاڤن dulapan or dĕlapan”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 297
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “dĕlapan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 267
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*alap”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading