banteng

Questions about banteng

What does banteng mean?

banteng means "wild ox of the Malay Archipelago".

How many syllables are in banteng?

banteng has 2 syllables and divides as ban-teng under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for banteng?

Close synonyms include banting, tsine, Bos banteng. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banteng a common word?

banteng is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.