hutan hujan

Malay

Etymology

From hutan (“forest”) +‎ hujan (“rain”), a calque of English rainforest, itself a calque of German Regenwald.

Noun

hutan hujan (plural hutan-hutan hujan, informal 1st possessive hutan hujanku, 2nd possessive hutan hujanmu, 3rd possessive hutan hujannya)

1. rainforest

Further reading

• “hutan hujan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.