tahun

Borrowed from Indonesian tahun.

tahun

1. year

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Malay tahun, from Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Maori tau).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.hʊn/
• Hyphenation: ta‧hun

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tahun (first-person possessive tahunku, second-person possessive tahunmu, third-person possessive tahunnya)

1. year:
   1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
   2. The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
   3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
   4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
   5. (higher education) A level or grade in school or college.

      Synonym: kelas

• warsa

• pancawarsa, lustrum (5 years)
• windu (8 years)
• dasawarsa, dekade (10 years)
• abad (100 years)
• milenium (1000 years)

• “tahun” 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.

From Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Maori tau).

• IPA^(key): [tahon]
• Rhymes: -ahon, -hon, -on

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• Rhymes: -un

tahun (Jawi spelling تاهون, plural tahun-tahun, informal 1st possessive tahunku, 2nd possessive tahunmu, 3rd possessive tahunnya)

1. year

• Indonesian: tahun

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “تاهن tahoen”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “تاهن tahun”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 156
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “tahun”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 515-6

• “tahun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayic *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Maori tau).

tahun

1. year

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

tahun

1. year
2. seasonal crop

• > Javanese: ꦠꦲꦸꦤ꧀ (taun) (inherited)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

tahun

1. year

From Classical Malay تاهون (tahun).

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.hun]

tahun (Jawi تاهن)

1. a year

• taong

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh