tatabuan

Ternate

tatabuan

Etymology

Said by de Clercq to be of Classical Malay [Term?] origin.

Affixed te- +‎ tabuhan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌta.ta.ˈbu.an]

Noun

tatabuan (Jawi تتبوان)

1. a set of a double row of gong chimes, the totobuang

Alternative forms

• tatabuang (Hayami-Allen)
• totobuang

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh