tenge

English

Etymology

From Kazakh теңге (teñge).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋɡeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋɡeɪ

Noun

tenge (plural tenges or tenge)

1. The basic monetary unit of Kazakhstan; subdivided into tiyin.

Translations

national currency of Kazakhstan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 堅戈／坚戈 (jiāngē)

• Indonesian: tenge
• Japanese: テンゲ (tenge)
• Kazakh: теңге (teñge)
• Kyrgyz: теңге (ky) (teŋge)
• Persian: تنگه (fa) (tenge)
• Russian: те́нге (ru) m (tɛ́ngɛ)
• Turkish: tenge (tr)
• Turkmen: tenge
• Uyghur: تەڭگە (tengge)

Anagrams

• Genet, genet

Indonesian

Etymology

From Kazakh теңге (teñge), from Old Turkic teg (“as, as much as, equal”), teŋ (“equivalent, balanced”), teŋe- (“compare, measure”). Doublet of tanggah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteŋe/
• Hyphenation: té‧ngé
• Rhymes: -ŋe, -e

Noun

téngé (plural tenge-tenge, first-person possessive tengeku, second-person possessive tengemu, third-person possessive tengenya)

1. tenge (national unit of currency of Kazakhstan)

Further reading

• “tenge” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

tenge

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんげ

Middle English

Noun

tenge

1. Alternative form of tenche