Kalimantan
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English
Etymology
From Indonesian Kalimantan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kalimantan
- A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
Derived terms
Noun
Kalimantan (plural Kalimantans)
- (anthropology) A member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay Kalimantan. In the current sense derived from Indonesian Kalimantan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kalimantan n
- Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
- (obsolete) Borneo
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
From Indonesian Kalimantan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kalimantan
- Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
Declension
| Inflection of Kalimantan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Kalimantan | — | |
| genitive | Kalimantanin | — | |
| partitive | Kalimantania | — | |
| illative | Kalimantaniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kalimantan | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Kalimantan | — |
| gen. | Kalimantanin | ||
| genitive | Kalimantanin | — | |
| partitive | Kalimantania | — | |
| inessive | Kalimantanissa | — | |
| elative | Kalimantanista | — | |
| illative | Kalimantaniin | — | |
| adessive | Kalimantanilla | — | |
| ablative | Kalimantanilta | — | |
| allative | Kalimantanille | — | |
| essive | Kalimantanina | — | |
| translative | Kalimantaniksi | — | |
| abessive | Kalimantanitta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Indonesian
Etymology
Unknown
- possibly from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”) + मन्थन (manthana, “churning”).
- possibly from Javanese ("diamond river")
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kalimantan
- Kalimantan (A region in Southeast Asia; the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
- A former province of Indonesia, capital: Banjarmasin
Noun
Kalimantan
- (anthropology) a member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island
Compounds
Descendants
- → English: Kalimantan
- → Dutch: Kalimantan
Further reading
- “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.