mil laut
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Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of mil + laut, calque of Dutch zeemijl (“nautical mile”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mil laut (plural mil-mil laut, first-person possessive mil lautku, second-person possessive mil lautmu, third-person possessive mil lautnya)
- (nautical) nautical mile: a unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile).
Synonyms
- batu nautika (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “mil laut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.