natar

Cognate of Old Javanese natar (“grounds, yard; ground, surface of a piece of cloth on which the pattern is painted”), Tetum natar (“rice paddy, paddy field”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnatar]
• Hyphenation: na‧tar

natar (Balinese script ᬦᬢᬃ)

1. backyard

• → Indonesian: natar

Borrowed from Latin natō (“I swim; I float”).

• IPA^(key): /naˈtar/

natar (present tense natas, past tense natis, future tense natos, imperative natez, conditional natus)

1. (intransitive) to swim

• From Old Javanese natar (“grounds, yard; ground, surface of cloth on which the pattern is painted”).
• From Balinese natar (“house-complex”).

Both are from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *natad (“cleared area around house, cleared ground in village”), from Proto-Austronesian *NataD (“outside”). Related to Indonesian latar (“background”). Cognate of Tetum natar (“rice paddy, paddy field”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnatar/ [ˈna.t̪ar]
• Rhymes: -atar
• Syllabification: na‧tar

natar (plural natar-natar)

1. background colour in batik

   Synonyms: dasar, latar

• “natar” 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.

Cognate of Balinese natar (“house-complex”), Indonesian natar (“background colour in batik, backyard”), Tetum natar (“rice paddy, paddy field”).

natar

1. background colour in batik.
2. backyard

• ᬦᬢᬃ
• ꦤꦠꦂ (natar)

Cognate of Old Javanese natar (“grounds, yard; ground, surface of a piece of cloth on which the pattern is painted”), Balinese natar (“backyard”), Indonesian natar.

natar

1. rice paddy; paddy field