acung
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦕꦸꦁ (acung, “raising the hand”).
Root
acung
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?].
Root
acung
- to kick
Derived terms
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
acung (first-person possessive acungku, second-person possessive acungmu, third-person possessive acungnya)
Etymology 4
Learned borrowing from Old Javanese cuṅ (“a kind of aubergine”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁rɗuŋ; *d₁rɗuəŋ (“egg-plant, bottle-gourd”).
Noun
acung (first-person possessive acungku, second-person possessive acungmu, third-person possessive acungnya)
- amaranth: the characteristic purplish-red colour of the flowers or leaves of these plants.
- acung:
- Synonym: ungu lembayung (Standard Malay)
- grayish magenta
- acung:
- Synonym: lembayung kelabu (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “acung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
- Pusat Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (1984) Daftar Istilah Warna [Colour Terms List] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia
Javanese
Romanization
acung
- Romanization of ꦲꦕꦸꦁ
Categories:
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/t͡ʃʊŋ
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- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian lemmas
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- Indonesian terms borrowed from Minangkabau
- Indonesian terms derived from Minangkabau
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Botany
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Old Javanese
- Indonesian learned borrowings from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- id:Purples
- Javanese non-lemma forms
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