Home › Words › T › tahantahan/ˈtahan/tahan · verb — to endure; to bear.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tahan ranks #16,849 of 42,862 for Qualifying.tahan is pronounced /ˈtahan/.EtymologyFrom Malay tahan.verbTo endure; to bear.e.g.“"Many local artists cannot tahan me," he says, using the Malay word for "tolerate". "If you live next to Picasso, can you tahan or not?"” — 2017, Wong Kim Hoh, It Changed My Life: What Tan Swie Hian wants - a free mind, The Sunday Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).