macan

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦕꦤ꧀ (macan).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmat͡ʃan]

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• Hyphenation: ma‧can

macan (plural macan-macan)

1. (chiefly Java) tiger (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: harimau

2. panther (big cat of the genus Panthera)

• “macan”, 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

macan

1. (Indonesian) romanization of ꦩꦕꦤ꧀

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃan/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan, -t͡ʃan, -an

macan (Jawi spelling ماچن, plural macan-macan or macan²)

1. tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris)

• harimau / هاريماو

• macan congkok / ماچن چوڠکوق
• macan gadungan / ماچن ݢادوڠن
• macan loreng / ماچن لوريڠ
• macan tutul / ماچن توتول

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Unknown, probably suffixed earlier mauṅ (“wild feline”) +‎ -an before moṅ?, which is inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qari-maquŋ, mauṅan > mauan (loss of ṅ because it is phonologically heavy, "uṅa") > mawan > macan (compare to sound change in Sundanese: wa > ca, as in kiwa > ké(n)ca ("left"), see also Old Javanese kañca), but it is unlikely because the two syllables are not bridged by n.

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃan/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃan
• Hyphenation: ma‧can

macan

1. tiger

   Synonyms: bowoṅ, harimoṅ, hariwyāghra, macan, moṅ, mṛgādhipa, mṛganātha, mṛgapati, mṛgaprabhu, mṛgarāja, mṛgendra, puhun, samoṅ, śārdūla, śārdūlākṛti, wasari, wasarya, wyāghra

• > Javanese: ꦩꦕꦤ꧀ (macan) (inherited)

• "macan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

mac (“son”) +‎ -an

macan m (genitive singular macain, plural macain)

1. diminutive of mac
2. sonny, laddie, little boy

• balachan

• nìghneag (“little girl, daughterling”)

From maca +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /mǎt͡san/
• Hyphenation: ma‧can

màcan m anim (Cyrillic spelling ма̀цан)

1. (hypocoristic) tomcat

• “macan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

macan

1. third-person plural present indicative of macar