datang

Pronunciation: /ˈdataŋ/

“datang” is a Malay word. Its meaning in English:

verb

to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

Etymology

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).

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