tambak

English

Etymology

From Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak).

Noun

tambak (plural tambaks)

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

Anagrams

• maktab

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• tumbok

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tambák

1. head; mound

   Synonyms: dagmang, tumpok

Derived terms

• magtambak
• tambakon

 

Brunei Malay

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tambak

1. stove (device for heating food), cooker

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtambaʔ/ [ˈt̪am.baʔ]
• Rhymes: -ambaʔ
• Syllabification: tam‧bak

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

tambak (plural tambak-tambak)

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

   Synonyms: tebat, gili-gili, tanggul, bendung

3. brackish water

Derived terms

• bertambak
• bertambak
• ikan tambak
• jalan tambak
• kota tambak
• menambak
• penambak
• penambakan
• petambak
• petani tambak
• tambakan
• tanah tambak

 

Etymology 2

From Malay tambak.

Noun

tambak (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• bawal

Etymology 3

Noun

tambak (uncountable)

1. a snapper, of species Lutjanus vaigiensis

Further reading

• “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.

Javanese

Romanization

tambak

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀

Malay

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

Noun

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

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• penambak [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• penambakan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• tambakan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• menambak [agent focus] (meN-)
• ditambak [patient focus] (di-)
• tertambak [agentless action] (teR-)
• bertambak [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tambak

Etymology 2

Noun

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)

Related terms

• bawal

Descendants

• Indonesian: tambak

Further reading

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

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

Noun

tambak

1. rampart

Verb

tambak

1. to heap

References

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

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• itambak
• magtambak
• mapatambak
• matambak
• matambakan
• nakatambak
• pagtatambak
• panambak
• pantambak
• patambakan
• santambak
• tambakan
• tambakan ng basura
• tumambak

 

See also

• tabon

 

Adjective

tambák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)

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

Further reading

• “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