minyak tanah
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of minyak (“oil”) + tanah (“earth”), calque of Dutch aardolie (“petroleum”, literally “earth oil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmiɲak ˈtanah/
Noun
minyak tanah (first-person possessive minyak tanahku, second-person possessive minyak tanahmu, third-person possessive minyak tanahnya)
- kerosene.
- Synonyms: avtur, kerosin, minyak patra
- Hypernym: minyak bumi
Further reading
- “minyak tanah” 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.
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