tabea

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbe.a/

Interjection

tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)

1. excuse me, pardon

Noun

tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)

1. a greeting, an act of greeting

Verb

tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)

1. (transitive) to greet

Conjugation

Conjugation of tabea
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totabea	fotabea	mitabea
2nd	notabea	nitabea
3rd	Masculine	otabea	itabea, yotabea†
Feminine	motabea
Neuter	itabea
† - archaic

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

West Makian

Etymology

Compare Ternate tabea (“to greet, a greeting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪a.ˈbe.a/

Noun

tabea

1. (polite) the head

   Synonym: apota (informal)

Alternative forms

• tabia

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics