pulang

See also: Pulang

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay pulang. from Proto-Malayic *pulaŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpulaŋ/ [ˈpu.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -ulaŋ
• Syllabification: pu‧lang

Verb

pulang (intransitive, does not take voice prefixes)

1. to return, to go home, to go back

   Aku akan pulang setelah bermain sepak bola.

   I'm going home after playing football.

Conjugation

Conjugation of pulang (ber-, intransitive)

root	pulang
	active	passive		basic imperative informal	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
active	berpulang	terpulang	dipulang	pulang	pulanglah
locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	memulangkan	terpulangkan	dipulangkan	pulangkan	pulangkanlah
	causative
active	–	–	–	–	–
locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	memperpulangkan	terperpulangkan	diperpulangkan	perpulangkan	perpulangkanlah

¹ There is other form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• berpulang
• kepulangan
• memulangi
• memulangkan
• pemulangan
• pulangan
• sepulang
• terpulang

• pulang asal
• pulang balik
• pulang haji
• pulang hari
• pulang ingatan
• pulang kampung
• pulang kandang
• pulang ke alam baka
• pulang ke negeri cacing
• pulang ke rahmatullah
• pulang kepada
• pulang kepadamu
• pulang maklum
• pulang modal
• pulang nama
• pulang paling
• pulang pergi
• pulang pohon
• pulang pokok
• pulang pulih
• pulang semangat
• pulang semula
• pulang tongsan

Further reading

• “pulang” 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.

Malay

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aŋ

Verb

pulang (Jawi spelling ڤولڠ)

1. to return, to go back, to go home

Synonyms

• balik
• kembali

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pemulang [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• kepulangan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• pulang-pulang [reduplication] (redup)
• pulangkan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• terpulang [agentless action] (teR-)

• pulang ke rahmatullah

Further reading

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