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tumpang

tumpang is the alternative spelling of tompang.

Meaning of tompang

Verb

tompang (invariable)

  1. (invariable) To have one's items carried by another; to include items as part of a trip taken by another.
    • If you go out then can I tumpang some letters to be mailed from post box?2003, Samantha Hanna, An essential guide to Singlish, page 86
  2. (invariable) To hitch a ride.
    • Eh, my wife took my car today. Can I tumpang your car to work?2009, The Coxford Singlish dictionary, page 195
  3. (invariable) To append something to a proposal.
    • Party chief Low Thia Khiang said that, while they support the name change to honour Encik Yusof, "we cannot square with the change(s) that are being 'tompang' (piggybacked) with the name change."2015-07-15, Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, “WP MPs object to change in selection process for board”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2015

Forms of tumpang

third-person singular presenttumpangs
present participletumpanging
past participletumpanged
pasttumpanged

Questions about tumpang

What is tumpang the alternative spelling of?
Tumpang is the alternative spelling of tompang.

Words near tumpang in the dictionary

  1. tumoursphere
  2. tumourspheres
  3. tump
  4. tump line
  5. tump lines
  6. tumpang
  7. Tumpat
  8. tumped
  9. tumpeng
  10. tumping
  11. tumpline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumpang (page history and authors); tompang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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