tahan
See also: tähän
English
Verb
tahan (third-person singular simple present tahans, present participle tahaning, simple past and past participle tahaned)
- (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) To endure; to bear.
- 2017, Wong Kim Hoh, It Changed My Life: What Tan Swie Hian wants - a free mind, The Sunday Times
- "Many local artists cannot tahan me," he says, using the Malay word for "tolerate". "If you live next to Picasso, can you tahan or not?"
- 2017, Zhangxin Zheng, Here’s why you shouldn’t be alarmed by pictures of “flooding” in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Mothership.sg
- The 3.2km meandering naturalised river at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park used to be a 2.7 km long straight concrete Kallang channel in the past, which would not otherwise have been able to tahan as much rainwater as it now does.
- 2017, 8 Things Malaysians Immediately Do When They Get a New Car... Which One Have You Done?, CILISOS (Current Issues Tambah Pedas)
- If you’re buying a new car, especially a better one than your previous, it’s gonna be able to tahan your need for speed. Step on the pedal only la, why so kancheong?
- 2017, Wong Kim Hoh, It Changed My Life: What Tan Swie Hian wants - a free mind, The Sunday Times
Estonian
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.han/
- Hyphenation: ta‧han
Etymology 1
From Proto-Austronesian *taqan (“to hold back, to keep in reserve”). Cognate with Tagalog taan (“to reserve, to save for other people for some future time”).
Verb
tahan (Jawi spelling تاهن)
- to endure, to bear, to withstand, to resist
- tahan lapar ― to endure hunger
- tahan sakit ― to endure the pain
- to be lasting, to be persisting (in)
- to be sufficient (for a certain period)
- (of an object) to be firm, to be strong
- (of a disease) to improve, to be on the mend
Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations
Affixed derivations:
- bertahan (“to be holding fast to”) [stative / habitual] (beR-)
- dipertahankan (“to be persisted”) [causative passive + patient focus + causative benefactive] (peR- + di- + -kan)
- pertahan (“to be held back”) [causative passive] (peR-)
- pertahani (“to be controlled”) [causative passive + causative (locative) benefactive] (peR- + -i)
- pertahankan (“to be endured”) [causative passive + causative benefactive] (peR- + -kan)
- ketahanan (“defensiveness; durability”) [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
- mempertahankan (“to maintain; to preserve”) [causative passive + agent focus + causative benefactive] (peR- + meN- + -kan)
- menahan (“to block; to hold back”) [agent focus] (meN-)
- menahani (“to block; to control”) [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
- menahankan (“to make something durable”) [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
- penahan (“defender”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
- penahanan (“defending; controlling”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
- pertahan (“defence”) [causative passive] (peR-)
- tahanan (“hindrance; obstacle”) [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
- tahankan (“to cause something or someone to block”) [causative benefactive] (-kan)
- tertahan (“to be able to block”) [agentless action] (teR-)
- tertahani (“to be controllable”) [agentless action + causative (locative) benefactive] (teR- + -i)
- tertahan-tahan (“(already be) off and on; disjointed(ly)”) [reduplication + agentless action] (redup + teR-)
Descendants
- → English: tahan
Etymology 2
From Proto-Austronesian *taqan, *taqen (“to set a trap, to set a snare”). Cognate with Tagalog taan (“a kind of fish trap used for catching fish on coral reefs”).
Verb
tahan (Jawi spelling تاهن, used in the form menahan)
Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations
Affixed derivations:
- tertahan (“(already be) cast a net”) [agentless action] (teR-)
Etymology 3
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