# hitam
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: hi‧tam

### Noun

hitam
* a metallic black color

### Adjective

hitam
* of a metallic black color

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay hitam, from Proto-Malayic *hitəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qitəm.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈhitam/ [ˈhi.t̪am]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -itam
* Syllabification: hi‧tam

### Adjective

hitam
* black (absorbing all light)
    Orang itu memiliki mobil hitam.That person owns a black car.

### Noun

hitam (plural hitam-hitam)
* black (colour)

#### See also

Colors in Indonesian · warna (layout · text) :
| putih | abu-abu, kelabu | hitam |
| merah; kirmizi | jingga; cokelat, pirang tua | kuning; krem |
| hijau pupus, hijau limau | hijau | hijau pudina; hijau tua |
| nilangsuka, sian; hijau laut | biru langit, nilakandi | biru |
| lembayung; nila | patma; ungu | merah jambu, merah muda |

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* itam

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *hitəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qitəm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hitam]
* Rhymes: -itam, -tam, -am

### Adjective

hitam (Jawi spelling هيتم)
* black (absorbing all light)
    Synonyms: aswad, bolong, langking, lotong
    Orang itu memiliki kereta hitam. ― That person owns a black car.

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: hitam

### Noun

hitam (Jawi spelling هيتم, plural hitam-hitam, informal 1st possessive hitamku, 2nd possessive hitammu, 3rd possessive hitamnya)
* black (colour)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: hitam

## Minangkabau
### Alternative forms

* itam

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *hitəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qitəm.

### Adjective

hitam
* black (absorbing all light)

### Noun

hitam
* black (colour)

## Portuguese
### Verb

hitam
* third-person plural present indicative of hitar

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay hitam (“black”), from Proto-Malayic *hitəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)qitəm. Doublet of itim.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /hiˈtam/ [hɪˈt̪am]
*** Rhymes: -am
** IPA: /ˈhitam/ [ˈhiː.t̪ɐm] (obsolete)
* Syllabification: hi‧tam

### Noun

hitám (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜆᜋ᜔) (obsolete)
* lead; black lead
    Synonyms: tingga, (obsolete) tinggahitam

#### Related terms

* tinggahitam

#### See also

* grapito

### Further reading

* “hitam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 515
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 485: “Plomo) Hitam (pp) negro, tinga hitam, el tal plomo”
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qitem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ختام, from Arabic خِتَام (ḵitām), verbal noun of خَاتَمَ (ḵātama).

### Noun

hitam (definite accusative hitamı, plural hitamlar) (archaic)
* end, conclusion, completion

### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ختام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 531
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hitam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN