新加坡华语资料库
本资料库收录了具有文化、历史或情感意义的华语词汇。这些词汇是新加坡人过去或现在的生活用语，有的见于印刷媒体，有的则在日常对话中使用。
to hitch a ride (colloquially known as tumpang)
to hitch a ride (colloquially known as tumpang)
DEFINITION
Verb
- To hitch a free ride.
- To share lodgings with another person.
- To entrust; to have someone pass an item to another person along the way.
由来
- 音译自马来语 tumpang。Tumpang 原指堆积、堆叠。
- Tumpang 是马来语词汇中的词根，加上不同的词缀，意义与词性也会有所改变，例如：
- menumpang: 动词，指“借宿或搭便车”。
- menumpangi: 动词，指“借宿在”。
- menumpangkan: 动词，指“把……借宿／寄放在”或“让人搭便车”。
- tumpangan: 名词，指“捎带物”或“借宿地”。
- penumpang: 名词，指“借宿人、乘客、委托者”。
- penumpangan: 名词，指“借宿／搭便车这件事”。
ETYMOLOGY
- The Mandarin term “隆帮” is a transliteration of the Malay term tumpang, which means to stack, or accumulate.
- Tumpang is a root word in Malay. Its meaning and word class changes when used with different affixes. For example:
- menumpang: verb, meaning “to share lodgings, or hitch a ride”.
- menumpangi: verb, meaning “to share lodgings at”.
- menumpangkan: verb, meaning to “put… with/in the care of” or “to offer a ride”.
- tumpangan: noun, meaning “item to be passed along” or “location of temporary residence”.
- penumpang: noun, meaning “lodger”, “passenger” or “entrusted person”.
- penumpangan: noun, meaning “the matter of lodging or hitching a ride”.
- The abovementioned meanings were subsequently adopted into Mandarin usage in Singapore.
例句
于是，我软硬兼施，一面吓他一面劝他，可他死都不承认有把屋子出租，常说那是他的朋友，来这里隆帮（搭住）几天，没有长期住。不过很奇怪，他家里一有陌生人来隆帮时，他就没有欠租。（《新明日报》， 25/3/2019）
SAMPLE SENTENCE
I cajoled him with both the carrot and the stick, but he refused to admit that he had rented the place out. Instead, he insisted that his friend was just tumpang-ing (sharing lodgings) for a few days, and not on a long-term basis. Strangely enough, whenever he had strangers residing with him, he would always be able to pay his rent on time. (Shin Min Daily News, 25/3/2019)
相关资料
- 在新加坡式英语（Singlish）中，也用“tumpang”来指借宿、委托别人代办事情、搭顺风车等。
RELATED INFORMATION
- Tumpang is also used in Singlish with the same meanings of “to hitch a free ride”, “to share lodgings” and so on.