minyak tanah
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of minyak (“oil”) + tanah (“earth”), calque of Dutch aardolie (“petroleum”, literally “earth oil”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
minyak tanah (first-person possessive minyak tanahku, second-person possessive minyak tanahmu, third-person possessive minyak tanahnya)
- kerosene.
- Synonyms: avtur, kerosin, minyak patra
- Hypernym: minyak bumi
Further reading edit
- “minyak tanah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.