Kalimantan

From Indonesian Kalimantan.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑlɪˈmɑntɑn/

Kalimantan

1. A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.

• Central Kalimantan
• East Kalimantan
• North Kalimantan
• South Kalimantan
• West Kalimantan

Kalimantan (plural Kalimantans)

1. (anthropology) A member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island.

Borrowed from Malay Kalimantan. In the current sense derived from Indonesian Kalimantan.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.liˈmɑn.tɑn/
• Hyphenation: Ka‧li‧man‧tan

Kalimantan n

1. Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo) [from mid or late 1940s]
2. (obsolete) Borneo [19th–early 20th c.]

• Kalimantans

From Indonesian Kalimantan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlimɑntɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝liˌmɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑn
• Syllabification^(key): Ka‧li‧man‧tan

Kalimantan

1. Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)

Unknown

• possibly from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”) +‎ मन्थन (manthana, “churning”).
• possibly from Javanese ("diamond river")

• IPA^(key): [ka.liˈman.tan]
• Hyphenation: Ka‧li‧man‧tan

Kalimantan

1. Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
2. A former province of Indonesia, capital: Banjarmasin

Kalimantan

1. (anthropology) a member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island

• → English: Kalimantan
• → Dutch: Kalimantan

• “Kalimantan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.