tarung

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese tarung (“to fight”), from Old Javanese taruṅ (“coming together, clashing”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtaruŋ/ [ˈt̪a.rʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -aruŋ
• Syllabification: ta‧rung

Verb

tarung

1. to fight

Derived terms

• bertarung
• bertarungan
• mempertarungkan
• menarung
• menarungkan
• penarung
• pertarungan
• petarung
• tertarung

• tarung bebas
• tarung drajat

Further reading

• “tarung”, 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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Javanese taruṅ (“coming together, clashing”).

Verb

tarung

1. to fight

Derived terms

• ditarungaké

Descendants

• → Indonesian: tarung

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁ɗɔɔŋ (“stalk, tail”) (compare Indonesian tedung, Old Javanese *taruṅ, Banjarese tadung (“snake”), and Balinese tedung).

Noun

tarung

1. a vowel diacritic sign (ꦴ)

Further reading

• “tarung”, in Javanese-Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Jawa-Indonesia] (in Indonesian), Yogyakarta, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta Special [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta], 2023.

Keningau Murut

tarung

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay terung, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁rɗuŋ (“egg-plant, bottle-gourd”)

Noun

tarung

1. eggplant

References

• Jason William Lobel (2016), North Borneo Sourcebook: Vocabularies and Functors‎^[1], Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, page 112

Makasar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaruŋ/, [ˈt̪ʰa.rũŋ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ruŋ

Noun

tarung (Lontara spelling ᨈᨑᨘ or 𑻦𑻭𑻴, definite tarunga, 3rd person possessive tarunna)

1. (Turatea dialect) true indigo, Indigofera tinctoria.

   Synonym: nyila (Standard)

Compounds

• tarung anja

Further reading

• A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[2], Brill, →DOI

Narua

Noun

tarung

1. mosquito

Sundanese

Verb

tarung (Sundanese spelling ᮒᮛᮥᮀ)

1. to fight