zat alir
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of zat (“substance”) + alir (“flow”), calque of Chinese 流體/流体 (literally “to flow + body”). Compare to Malay bendalir.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zat alir (plural zat-zat alir, first-person possessive zat alirku, second-person possessive zat alirmu, third-person possessive zat alirnya)
- (physics) fluid: Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
Further reading edit
- “zat alir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.