tambak

From Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak).

tambak (plural tambaks)

1. In Java, a brackish pond for raising fish and growing rice.

• maktab

• tumbok

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

• Hyphenation: tam‧bak
• IPA^(key): /tamˈbak/ [tamˈbak]

tambák

1. head; mound

   Synonyms: dagmang, tumpok

• IPA^(key): /tambak/
• Hyphenation: tam‧bak

tambak

1. stove (device for heating food), cooker

• IPA^(key): [ˈtambak]
• Hyphenation: tam‧bak

• Inherited from Malay tambak (“embankment, dyke; banking, filling, levelling up, reclamation; causeway”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.
• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak, “fish pond; dyke”).

tambak (plural tambak-tambak, first-person possessive tambakku, second-person possessive tambakmu, third-person possessive tambaknya)

1. fish pond
2. dyke, levee, banking, leveling

   Synonyms: tebat, gili-gili, tanggul, bendung

3. brackish water

From Malay tambak.

tambak (first-person possessive tambakku, second-person possessive tambakmu, third-person possessive tambaknya)

1. black pomfret (Parastromateus niger)
2. silver pomfret (Pampus chinensis)

• bawal

tambak (first-person possessive tambakku, second-person possessive tambakmu, third-person possessive tambaknya)

1. a snapper, of species Lutjanus vaigiensis

• “tambak” 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.

tambak

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

tambak (Jawi spelling تمبق, plural tambak-tambak, informal 1st possessive tambakku, 2nd possessive tambakmu, 3rd possessive tambaknya)

1. embankment, dyke
2. banking, filling, levelling up, reclamation (of low-tying land)
3. causeway

   Synonym: koswe

   Tambak Johor-Singapura ― Johor-Singapore Causeway

• Indonesian: tambak

tambak (Jawi spelling تمبق, plural tambak-tambak, informal 1st possessive tambakku, 2nd possessive tambakmu, 3rd possessive tambaknya)

1. black pomfret (Parastromateus niger)
2. silver pomfret (Pampus chinensis)

• bawal

• Indonesian: tambak

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

tambak

1. rampart

tambak

1. to heap

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak. Compare Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak, “dyke”), Malay tambak (“embankment”), and Maranao tambak (“rampart”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tamˈbak/ [t̪ɐmˈbak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tam‧bak

tambák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)

1. heap; pile; mound (of earth, garbage, stones, sand, etc.)

   Synonyms: bunton, tumpok

2. accumulation (as of official papers not acted upon)
3. act of filling up of a low place (with earth, garbage, stones, sand, etc.)

   Synonym: pagtatambak

4. embankment; terrace

   Synonym: teraplen

tambák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)

1. (sports, colloquial) on a substantial point disadvantage against an opponent

• “tambak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tambak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI