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tenggara.

southeast

8 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/təŋˈɡara/Standard-Indonesian[t̪əŋˈɡa.ra]Standard-Indonesian
  1. southeast

    Asia Tenggara
    Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara
Where this word comes from

From Malay tenggara, from Malayalam തെൻകര (teṉkara, “southeast”). Displaced native timur daya (whence barat daya), making it one of the borrowed compass point names in Indonesian alongside with utara.

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