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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch quarantaine (“quarantine”), from French quarantaine (“quarantine”), from Venetian Italian quarantina (“quarantine”, literally “period of forty days”), from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ka‧ran‧ti‧na
Noun
karantina (plural karantina-karantina, first-person possessive karantinaku, second-person possessive karantinamu, third-person possessive karantinanya)
- quarantine, a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قرانتینه (karantina), from Italian quarantina, from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).
Noun
karantina (definite accusative karantinayı, plural karantinalar)
- quarantine
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References
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 78