sesar
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
- The sense “fault” probably is a semantic loan from Japanese ずれ (zure, “slippage, a gap, shear”), a synonym of 斷層 (dansō, “fault”, literally “gap”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sêsar (plural sesar-sesar, first-person possessive sesarku, second-person possessive sesarmu, third-person possessive sesarnya)
- (seismology) fault: A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- Synonym: patahan
Verb edit
sêsar
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sesar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.