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• dateng (informal)

Inherited from Malay datang, from Classical Malay داتڠ (datang), from Proto-Malayic *datəŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdataŋ/ [ˈda.t̪aŋ]

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• Rhymes: -ataŋ
• Syllabification: da‧tang

datang (intransitive, does not take voice prefixes)

1. to come

   Kami datang ke toko ini untuk membeli buku pembelajaran.

   We came to this shop to buy learning books.

2. to arrive

   Synonym: tiba

   Dia nanti datang setelah sore. ― He will arrive later in the afternoon.

• Used in the greeting selamat datang (“welcome”).
• Colloquially and dialectally, datang can be used as a transitive verb by means of leaving out the preposition ke (“to”):

Kapan datang Jakarta? - When do [you] come [to] Jakarta?

• “datang”, 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

Derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ.

datang

1. to come

• dtg (SMS slang)

Inherited from Classical Malay داتڠ (datang), from Proto-Malayic *datəŋ, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ. Compare with Tagalog dating (“arrival”) & Tausug datung (“to arrive”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (dātaṃ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdataŋ/ [ˈda.t̪aŋ]
• Rhymes: -ataŋ, -taŋ, -aŋ

datang (Jawi spelling داتڠ)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

   Synonym: mari

   Antonym: pergi

• > Indonesian: datang (inherited)

• "datang" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017