panah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay panah, from Classical Malay panah, from Proto-Malayic *panah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq. Compare with Tagalog pana (“bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa.nah]
• Rhymes: -nah
• Hyphenation: pa‧nah

Noun

panah (first-person possessive panahku, second-person possessive panahmu, third-person possessive panahnya)

1. arrow:
   1. a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

      Synonym: anak panah

   2. a sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).

Derived terms

• berpanah-panahan
• dipanah
• dipanahi
• memanah
• memanahi
• memanahkan
• panahan
• pemanah
• pemanahan
• sepemanah
• terpanah

 

• panah angin
• panah api
• panah asmara
• panah kelodan
• panah matahari
• panah sendaren

 

Further reading

• “panah” 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

panah

1. Romanization of ꦥꦤꦃ

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *panah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq. Compare with Tagalog pana (“bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panah/
• Rhymes: -anah, -nah, -ah

Noun

panah (Jawi spelling ڤانه, plural panah-panah, informal 1st possessive panahku, 2nd possessive panahmu, 3rd possessive panahnya)

1. arrow (projectile)

Verb

panah (used in the form memanah)

1. to shoot (to fire a shot (an arrow))

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pemanah [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• panahan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• memanah [agent focus] (meN-)
• dipanah [patient focus] (di-)
• terpanah [agentless action] (teR-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

• anak panah

Descendants

• Indonesian: panah

See also

• busur

References

• "panah" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “panah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *panaq.

Noun

panah

1. arrow

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦥꦤꦃ (panah)

Further reading

• "panah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.