lelang

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• lelung

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama)

Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām)bor.

Portuguese leilãobor.

Malay lelong

Indonesian lelang

Inherited from Malay lelong, borrowed from Portuguese leilão, borrowed from Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām), from أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛlaŋ/ [ˈlɛ.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɛlaŋ
• Syllabification: le‧lang

Noun

lèlang

1. auction (public sales event)
2. tender

Derived terms

• lelangan
• melelang
• melelangkan
• memperlelangkan
• pelelang
• pelelangan
• perlelangan
• terlelang

 

Further reading

• “lelang” 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.

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly from either:

• a colloquial clipping of Spanish abuela (“grandmother”) +‎ -ng. See also lelong, ninang, ninong, nana, tata, nanang, tatang, tiya, tiyo, tiyang, tiyong, ateng, kuyang, dikong, ditseng.
• Hokkien 老人 (lāu-lâng, “old folk/s”) according to Manuel (1948).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlelaŋ/ [ˈlɛː.lɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -elaŋ
• Syllabification: le‧lang

Noun

lelang (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜎᜅ᜔)

1. grandmother

   Synonyms: lola, impo, (dialectal) inana, (archaic) abwela, (archaic) agwela

Coordinate terms

• lelong

 

Derived terms

• lelang-tanda

Related terms

• abwela
• agwela

 

Further reading

• “lelang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “lelang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 5