tahun

Borrowed from Indonesian tahun.

tahun

1. year

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN.

tahun

1. forest

• tahoen (1901–1947)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtahun/ [ˈt̪a.hʊn]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ahun
• Syllabification: ta‧hun

Inherited from Malay tahun, from Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Māori tau).

tahun (plural tahun-tahun)

1. year:
   1. a solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference)
   2. the time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star
   3. a period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar
   4. a scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity
   5. (higher education) a level or grade in school or college

      Synonym: kelas

   6. the proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan
2. season (the period of the year when crops can be grown)

• warsa

• pancawarsa, lustrum (5 years)
• windu (8 years)
• dasawarsa, dekade (10 years)
• abad (100 years)
• milenium (1000 years)

• → As: tahun

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tahun

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• “tahun”, 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

From Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Māori tau).

• IPA^(key): [ta.hon]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -hon, -on
• Hyphenation: ta‧hun

tahun (Jawi spelling تاهون, plural tahun-tahun or tahun²)

1. A year:
   1. A period of time of 12 months.
   2. The year count of a calendar.

      tahun 2025 ― the year 2025

   3. A 12-month period of a magazine, newspaper, etc.
2. A season.

   Synonym: musim

• Indonesian: tahun, tahoen (1901–1947)
  • → As: tahun
• → Tausug: tahun
• → Ternate: tahun

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “تاهن tahoen”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “تاهن tahun”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 156
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “tahun”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 515-6

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

From Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Māori tau).

tahun

1. year

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

tahun

1. year
2. seasonal crop

• > Javanese: ꦠꦲꦸꦤ꧀ (taun) (inherited)

From Malay tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /tahun/ [t̪aˈɦun̪]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: ta‧hun

tahun (Sulat Sūg spelling تَهُنْ)

1. year

From Classical Malay تاهون (tahun).

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.hun]

tahun (Jawi تاهن)

1. a year

• taong

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh