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Brunei Malay
Etymology
Compare Malay pasir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pasir/
- Hyphenation: pa‧sir
Noun
pasir
- 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
- 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)
- sand (finely ground rock)
Synonyms
Descendants
Further reading
Old Javanese
Etymology
From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasiR (“sandbank, shoal in river or sea”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pasir
- beach
- Synonyms: pasisi, sāgaratīra
- shore, river-bank
- Synonyms: kūla, pasisi, piṅgir, sāgaratīra, tambiṅ, taṭa, tatpāra, tĕmbiṅ, tīra, welā
- sea
- Synonyms: abdhi, arṇawa, ernawa, jaladhi, lahut, lod, pasisi, raktākāra, ratnakara, ratnadukara, sāgara, samudra, saraswat, sindhu, tasik, udadhi
Derived terms
Descendants
Sundanese
Romanization
pasir
- Romanization of ᮕᮞᮤᮁ