tandon

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tãdɔ̃/

Noun

tandon

1. tendon

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦠꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tandhon, “stored supplies”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtandon/ [ˈt̪an.dɔn]
• Rhymes: -andon
• Syllabification: tan‧don

Noun

tandon (plural tandon-tandon)

1. cistern, reservoir
2. collateral, security
3. provision, stock, supply

Derived terms

• penandonan

• tandon air
• tandon darah
• tandon helium
• tandon septik

Descendants

• → Malay: تندون (tandon)

Further reading

• “tandon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016