titah

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.tah/
• Rhymes: -tah
• Hyphenation: ti‧tah

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay titah. Compare Javanese ꦠꦶꦠꦃ (titah, “pronouncement, order; destiny; creation; creature”).

Noun

titah (plural titah-titah, first-person possessive titahku, second-person possessive titahmu, third-person possessive titahnya)

1. royal order, royal command.

Derived terms

• bertitah
• menitahkan

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦠꦺꦠꦃ (tétah, “to hold children as they learn to walk”).

Verb

titah

1. to hold children as they learn to walk

Alternative forms

• tatah
• tatih

Derived terms

• menitah
• menitah-nitah

 

Further reading

• “titah” 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.

Javanese

Romanization

titah

1. Romanization of ꦠꦶꦠꦃ

Malay

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /titah/
• Rhymes: -itah, -tah, -ah
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪i.t̪äh]

Noun

titah (Jawi spelling تيته, plural titah-titah, informal 1st possessive titahku, 2nd possessive titahmu, 3rd possessive titahnya)

1. decree, commandment

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• menitahkan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• bertitah [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: titah

Further reading

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.tah/
• Rhymes: -tah
• Hyphenation: ti‧tah

Noun

titah

1. arrangement, ordering, formation, disposition
2. fixed condition, preordained state, predestination

Derived terms

• anitah
• atitah
• panitah
• patitah
• tinitah
• tumitah

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦠꦶꦠꦃ (titah)

Further reading

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