tungau

== Central Dusun == === Etymology === Onomatopoeic. === Noun === tungau cat == Indonesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Malay tungau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuŋaw (“tiny red itch mite”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtuŋau̯/ [ˈt̪u.ŋau̯] Rhymes: -uŋau̯ Syllabification: tu‧ngau === Noun === tungau (plural tungau-tungau) mite (any of many minute arachnids of the subclass Acarina) ==== Hyponyms ==== === References === Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tuŋaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI === Further reading === “tungau”, 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 == Malay == === Etymology === From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuŋaw (“tiny red itch mite”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tuŋau̯/ Rhymes: -uŋau̯ === Noun === tungau (Jawi spelling توڠاو, plural tungau-tungau or tungau2) mite Synonym: hama ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Indonesian: tungau === Further reading === "tungau" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017