separuh

separuh

Malay

Etymology

From se- +‎ paruh from Old Javanese paro, parwa (“half”) (compare with modern Javanese ꦥꦫꦺꦴ (paro, “half”)) from paṅrwa from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paR- + *duha corresponding to Malay per- + dua – doublet of seperdua[1]

Numeral

separuh

  1. half
    Synonyms: setengah, perdua

References

  1. ^ Nothofer, Bernd (2009), “Patut dan turut; dua dan separuh; datar dan rata: kata warisan atau kata pinjaman? Catatan mengenai etimologi kosakata Melayu”, in Jurnal Ilmiah Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia, volume 27, number 1, page 28
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