rantas

Borrowed from Javanese ꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀ (rantas, “severed, snapped”), from Old Javanese rantas (“broken, severed, snapped; tattered”). Doublet of rentas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈran.tas/, [ˈran̪.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -tas
• Hyphenation: ran‧tas

rantas (comparative lebih rantas, superlative paling rantas)

1. broken off
2. cut down, cleared
3. frayed, threadbare, worn-out

rantas (plural rantas-rantas)

1. (geology) suture

• “rantas” 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.

rantas

1. romanization of ꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qantas (“cut through”), compare Proto-Austronesian *-tas (“cut through, sever; rip”).

• IPA^(key): /ran.tas/
• Rhymes: -tas
• Hyphenation: ran‧tas

rantas

1. broken, severed, snapped
2. tattered

• > Javanese: ꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀ (rantas) (inherited)
  • → Malay: rantas, rentas
  • → Indonesian: rantas

• "rantas" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.