penanggalan.
stripping, removal, renouncement, dismantling
Meaning & usage
stripping, removal, renouncement, dismantling
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay penanggalan affixed tanggal (“to remove”) + peng- -an.
a kind of ghost in Riau Islands apppearing as a floating head with entrails sticking out
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay penanggalan affixing tanggal (“to detach”) + peng- -an.
calendar
almanac
dating (setting of a date; process of estimating the age of something)
penanggalan radiokarbon
date (day and month)
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay penanggalan from semantic loan from Javanese ꦥꦤꦁꦒꦭꦤ꧀ (pananggalan, “calendar, almanac”); surface analysis: tanggal (“date”) + peng- -an
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