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

References
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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