longsor

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Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ (longsor), from Old Javanese luṅsur (“coming down, slipping down, sliding down; to come down, to slide down, to slip down”). Doublet of lungsur.

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Noun

longsor (plural longsor-longsor, first-person possessive longsorku, second-person possessive longsormu, third-person possessive longsornya)

  1. avalanche
  2. earthflow, soilflow: a downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
  3. landslide: a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.

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Javanese

Romanization

longsor

  1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ
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