teluk

Inherited from Malay teluk.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /təˈluʔ/ [t̪əˈlʊʔ]
• Rhymes: -uʔ
• Syllabification: te‧luk

têluk

1. bay (a body of water more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land)

   Synonym: keluk

2. gulf (a portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea)

• “teluk”, 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

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təluk (“curved, as a shoreline”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /təˈlok/ [t̪əˈloʔ]
  • Rhymes: -oʔ

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /təˈluk/ [t̪əˈluʔ]
  • Rhymes: -uʔ
• Hyphenation: te‧luk

teluk (Jawi spelling تلوق, plural teluk-teluk)

1. bay, bend (of a river), gulf of sea

• > Indonesian: teluk (inherited)
• → Chinese: 直落 (Zhíluò)

• “teluk”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary