longsor
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ (longsor), from Old Javanese luṅsur (“coming down, slipping down, sliding down; to come down, to slide down, to slip down”), probably derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer [Term?]. Doublet of lungsur.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈloŋsor/ [ˈloŋ.sɔr]
- Rhymes: -oŋsor
- Syllabification: long‧sor
Noun
longsor (plural longsor-longsor)
- avalanche
- earthflow, soilflow: a downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity
- landslide: a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path
Synonyms
Derived terms
- longsoran
- aliran longsor
- bendungan salju longsor
- longsor gravitasi
- longsor masal
- tanah longsor
Further reading
- “longsor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
longsor
- romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ