hantu
See also: Hán tự
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhantu/
- Rhymes: -antu
- Syllabification: han‧tu
Verb
hantu
- imperative of hanti
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay hantu, from Proto-Malayic *hantu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu. False cognate of English haunt (typically misunderstood in sense of rumah hantu (“haunted house”) or in verb sense menghantui (“to haunt”))
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈhantu/ [ˈhan̪.t̪u]
- Rhymes: -antu
- Syllabification: han‧tu
Noun
hantu (plural hantu-hantu)
- ghost (spirit appearing after death)
Derived terms
- berhantu
- dihantui
- hantu-hantuan
- menghantu
- menghantui
- hantu air
- hantu angin
- hantu api
- hantu aru-aru
- hantu badai
- hantu beliau
- hantu blau
- hantu bungkus
- hantu bunian
- hantu denah
- hantu golek
- hantu gunung
- hantu haru-haru
- hantu jembalang
- hantu kangkung ngeang-ngeang
- hantu kocong
- hantu laut
- hantu pemburu
- hantu pocong
- hantu puaka
- hantu raya
- hantu rimba
- hantu runjung
- hantu suluh
- hantu sungai
- hantu tanah
- hantu tuyul
Further reading
- “hantu”, 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
Malay
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayic *hantu[1] (cf. Iban antu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu (cf. Buginese anitu, Tagalog anito), from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu.[2]
False cognate of English haunt, mainly misunderstood in sense of rumah hantu (“haunted house”).
Pronunciation
- (Baku, schwa-variety, /a/-variety) IPA(key): /ˈhantu/ [ˈhan̪.t̪u]
- Rhymes: -antu, -u
- Hyphenation: han‧tu
Noun
hantu (Jawi spelling هنتو, plural hantu-hantu or hantu2)
- (literally) A general term for ghosts, spirits or mystical being.[3]
- Ia takut hantu.
- [He/She/They/It] is afraid of ghosts.
- Ia sakit setelah kesurupan hantu.
- [He/She/They/It] fell ill after being possessed by demons.
- (figurative) spy; secret agent[3]
- (figurative) A term for a very bad and evil person; i.e. a miscreant[3]
Hyponyms
Type of ghosts/spirits
- bajang
- bandan
- bunian / kelembaian / lemboyan / siluman
- dedemit
- hantu air
- hantu apu / hantu jamuan
- hantu belian / hantu loyang
- hantu bungkus / hantu golek / hantu guling / pocong
- hantu cika / hantu kembung
- Hantu Doman (“Hayagriva, one of Panchamukhi Hanuman form”)
- hantu galah / hantu tinggi
- hantu jerongkong
- hantu kopek / hantu tetek / mak kopek
- hantu laut
- hantu pemburu / hantu seburu
- hantu penyakit
- hantu raya
- hantu tanah / jembalang
- jenglot
- kertau
- langsuir / langsuyar
- marbut
- orang minyak
- pelesit
- penanggal
- penunggu
- polong
- pontianak / matianak
- si cindai
- suangi
- toyol
Derived terms
Affixations
- berhantu
- kehantuan
- menghantu
- menghantui
Compounds
- bahasa hantu (“language of the dead”)
- burung hantu (“owl”)
- jari hantu (“middle finger”)
- kera hantu (“tarsier”)
Descendants
References
- ^ Adelaar, K. A. (1992), Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology[1], Canberra: The Australian National University, page 60,111
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaNiCu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “hantu”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN
Further reading
- "hantu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- हन्तु (Devanagari script)
- হন্তু (Bengali script)
- හන්තු (Sinhalese script)
- ဟန္တု or ႁၼ္တု or ႁၼ်တု (Burmese script)
- หนฺตุ or หันตุ (Thai script)
- ᩉᨶ᩠ᨲᩩ (Tai Tham script)
- ຫນ຺ຕຸ or ຫັນຕຸ (Lao script)
- ហន្តុ (Khmer script)
- 𑄦𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄪 (Chakma script)
Noun
hantu
- genitive/dative singular of hantar (“striker”)