tamba

Javanese

Romanization

tamba

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧ

Malay

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tamba(h)/
  • Rhymes: -ambah, -bah, -ah

Verb

tamba (1701, used in the form menamba)

  1. (1924-1972) Obsolete spelling of tambah

Old Javanese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tam.ba/
  • Rhymes: -ba
  • Hyphenation: tam‧ba

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambar (“antidote”) (compare Malay tawar (“tasteless”), Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambal (“to mend, to patch”)).

Noun

tamba

  1. cure, remedy, medicine
    Synonyms: jampi, jampyan, oṣadha, oṣadhi, tamba, tambā, uṣadha, uwat, waidya, wedya
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • anamba
  • anambani
  • panamban
  • pratamba
  • tambana
  • tan patamban
  • tinamban
  • tumamba
  • tumambani
Descendants
  • Javanese: ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧ (tamba)

Etymology 2

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

Root

tamba

  1. tardy, slow
Derived terms
  • atamban

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