republik pisang
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of republik + pisang (“banana”).
Noun edit
republik pisang (plural republik-republik pisang, first-person possessive republik pisangku, second-person possessive republik pisangmu, third-person possessive republik pisangnya)
- (politics, idiomatic, derogatory) banana republic: a small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
Further reading edit
- “republik pisang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.