bahan bakar
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of bahan (“material”) + bakar (“fire”), calque of Dutch brandstof (“fuel”, literally “to burn + material”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bahan bakar (first-person possessive bahan bakarku, second-person possessive bahan bakarmu, third-person possessive bahan bakarnya)
Synonyms edit
- bahan api (Standard Malay)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bahan bakar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.