pasir

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Brunei Malay

Etymology

Compare Malay pasir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pasir/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧sir

Noun

pasir

  1. sand (finely ground rock)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pasir, from Classical Malay pasir, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasiR (sandbank, shoal in river or sea).

Pronunciation

Noun

pasir (first-person possessive pasirku, second-person possessive pasirmu, third-person possessive pasirnya)

  1. sand (finely ground rock)

Derived terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasiR (sandbank, shoal in river or sea). Cognate with Tagalog pasig (a river that flows into the sea; sandy bank of a river).

Pronunciation

Noun

pasir (Jawi spelling ڤاسير, plural pasir-pasir, informal 1st possessive pasirku, 2nd possessive pasirmu, 3rd possessive pasirnya)

  1. sand (finely ground rock)

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: pasir
  • Chewong: pasir
  • Malagasy: fasika

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasiR (sandbank, shoal in river or sea).

Pronunciation

Noun

pasir

  1. beach
    Synonyms: pasisi, sāgaratīra
  2. shore, river-bank
    Synonyms: kūla, pasisi, piṅgir, sāgaratīra, tambiṅ, taṭa, tatpāra, tĕmbiṅ, tīra, welā
  3. sea
    Synonyms: abdhi, arṇawa, ernawa, jaladhi, lahut, lod, pasisi, raktākāra, ratnakara, ratnadukara, sāgara, samudra, saraswat, sindhu, tasik, udadhi

Derived terms

Descendants

Sundanese

Romanization

pasir

  1. Romanization of ᮕᮞᮤᮁ