pasta gigi
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of pasta (“paste”) + gigi (“tooth”), literally “tooth paste”, a calque of Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pasta gigi (first-person possessive pasta gigiku, second-person possessive pasta gigimu, third-person possessive pasta giginya)
Synonyms edit
- (informal) odol
- tapal gigi
- ubat gigi (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
Further reading edit
- “pasta gigi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.