kereta api bawah tanah
Indonesian
Etymology
Etymology tree
Malay kereta api
Indonesian kereta api
Middle English undergrounde
English underground
Indonesian bawah tanah
Indonesian kereta api bawah tanah
Compound of kereta api (“train”) + bawah tanah (“underground”), probably calque from Chinese 地下鐵路/地下铁路 or Japanese 地下鉄道 (chikatetsudō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kəˈrɛt̪a ˈapi ˈbawah ˈtanah]
Noun
kereta api bawah tanah (plural kereta-kereta api bawah tanah)
Further reading
- “kereta api bawah tanah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016