tolong

English

Etymology

From Malay tolong.

Pronunciation

Adverb

tolong (not comparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) please
    • 2004 August 22, “Queer Eye for the Dead Guy”, in The Sunday Times (LifeStyle), page 54:
      Tolong, please don’t use the word ‘haunt’ in this context. It’s too creepy,’ said the Wife, smoothing away her goosebumps.

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in 1575. tol (to push) + -ong (frequentative verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtoloŋɡ]
  • Hyphenation: to‧long
  • Rhymes: -oŋɡ

Verb

tolong

  1. (intransitive, reciprocal, of a crowd) to jostle (to bump into or brush against while (with difficulty) moving here and there)
    Synonyms: hemzseg, nyüzsög, rajzik
  2. (intransitive) to jostle (to move through by pushing and shoving)
    Synonyms: tolakodik, tülekedik, furakodik, nyomakodik, nyomul, lökdösődik

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

  • tolongás

(With verbal prefixes):

  • betolong
  • kitolong
  • visszatolong

References

  1. tolong in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • tolong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tolong, from Classical Malay tolong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuluŋ (to help, to assist). Cognate of Tagalog tulong.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈto.lɔŋ]
  • Hyphenation: to‧long

Verb

tolong (base form, active menolong, passive ditolong)

  1. to help
    Synonym: bantu

Alternative forms

Affixed terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuluŋ (to help, to assist). Cognate with Tagalog tulong.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /to.loŋ/
  • Rhymes: -oloŋ, -loŋ, -oŋ
  • (file)

Verb

tolong (Jawi spelling تولوڠ)

  1. to help, to assist

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tolong
  • Min Nan: 多隆, 導郎多隆, 导郎 (tō-long; tō͘-lông)

Further reading

Pangasinan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuluŋ (to help, to assist). Cognate with Tagalog tulong.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoloŋ/, [ˈtʊ.lʊŋ]

Noun

tolong

  1. help

Verb

tolong

  1. to help; to assist
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