nasi sudah menjadi bubur
Indonesian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Malay nasi sudah menjadi bubur.
Proverb edit
Further reading edit
- “nasi sudah menjadi bubur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
nasi (“rice”) + sudah (“already”) + menjadi (“become”) + bubur (“porridge”), literally “rice has become porridge”, keeping in mind that porridge cannot be turned back to rice.