datukanda

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• datukda
• datunda

Etymology

Affixed datuk (“grandfather, elderly”) +‎ -anda, from Malay datuk.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /datuˈkanda/ [da.t̪uˈkan.da]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: da‧tu‧kan‧da

Noun

datukanda (plural datukanda-datukanda)

1. (honorific) alternative form of datuk (“grandfather; elderly”)

Further reading

• “datukanda”, 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