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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀ (rantas, “severed, snapped”), from Old Javanese rantas (“broken, severed, snapped; tattered”). Doublet of rentas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈran.tas/,
- Rhymes: -tas
- Hyphenation: ran‧tas
Adjective
rantas
- broken off
- cut down, cleared
- frayed, threadbare, worn-out
Noun
rantas (plural rantas-rantas, first-person possessive rantasku, second-person possessive rantasmu, third-person possessive rantasnya)
- (geology) suture
Derived terms
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
rantas
- Romanization of ꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀
Old Javanese
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qantas (“cut through”), compare Proto-Austronesian *-tas (“cut through, sever; rip”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ran.tas/
- Rhymes: -tas
- Hyphenation: ran‧tas
Adjective
rantas
- broken, severed, snapped
- tattered
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "rantas" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.