tanih

Malay

Etymology

Compare tanah (“soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tanih/
• Rhymes: -anih, -nih, -ih

Noun

tanih (Jawi spelling [[#Malay|]], plural tanih-tanih, informal 1st possessive tanihku, 2nd possessive tanihmu, 3rd possessive tanihnya)

1. soil (a layer of earth)

Synonyms

• tanah

Further reading

• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.