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Etymology
Borrowed from English grass.
Noun
garasi
- grass
References
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch garage, from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧si
Noun
garasi (first-person possessive garasiku, second-person possessive garasimu, third-person possessive garasinya)
- garage, a building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- Synonym: kandang mobil
Alternative forms
- garaj (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
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