tudung

Borrowed from Malay tudung.

tudung (plural tudungs)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore) headscarf, especially a form of the hijab worn among Muslim women

Inherited from Malay tudung (“veil; hijab; cover”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuduŋ (“head cover, protection from sun or rain”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtuduŋ/ [ˈt̪u.dʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -uduŋ
• Syllabification: tu‧dung

tudung (plural tudung-tudung)

1. cap, cover, shade
2. veil; hijab
3. (microbiology, mycology) cap, pileus

• “tudung”, 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
• Mien A. Rifai; Ratna Siri Hadioetomo; Indrawati Ganjar (1992), Kamus Mikrobiologi [Dictionary of Microbiology] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, page 148: “tudung”

• tuds (Internet slang, abbreviation)
• tdg (Internet, text messaging, abbreviation)
• tudong (pronunciation spelling)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuduŋ (“head cover, protection from sun or rain”).

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈtuduŋ/ [ˈt̪u.duŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uduŋ

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈtudoŋ/ [ˈt̪u.doŋ]
  • Rhymes: -udoŋ
• Hyphenation: tu‧dung

tudung (Jawi spelling تودوڠ, plural tudung-tudung or tudung²)

1. veil; hijab

   Synonym: hijab

   Meronym: awning

   Lawanya tudung itu!

   That hijab is so beautiful!

2. any object used to close or cover something (e.g. a container, a bottle, food)

   Synonym: penutup

   Tudung botol

   Bottle lid

tudung (Jawi spelling تودوڠ)

1. to close or cover something (e.g. a container, a bottle, food)

   Synonym: tutup

   Tudung kuih itu sekarang!

   Cover that kuih right now!

• > Indonesian: tudung (inherited)
• → English: tudung

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