tembang
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Malay tembang (Java), from Javanese tembang.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təmˈbaŋ/ [t̪əmˈbaŋ]
- Rhymes: -aŋ
- Syllabification: tem‧bang
Noun
têmbang (plural tembang-tembang)
Hyponyms
- tembang cigawiran
- tembang cilik
- tembang dolanan
- tembang gede
- tembang kawi
- tembang macapat
- tembang mistik
- tembang tengahan
Derived terms
- menembang
- menembangkan
- penembang
- penembangan
- tembangan
Etymology 2
Inherited from Malay tembang (Batavia Malay).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təmˈbaŋ/ [t̪əmˈbaŋ]
- Rhymes: -aŋ
- Syllabification: tem‧bang
Noun
têmbang (plural tembang-tembang)
- (zoology) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
- Synonym: tamban
Further reading
- “tembang”, 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
Javanese
Noun
tembang
Kambera
Verb
tembang
- (intransitive) to be stupid
References
- Marian Klamer (1998), A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172
Sundanese
Noun
tembang (Sundanese script ᮒᮨᮙ᮪ᮘᮀ)