jazirah

Indonesian

Alternative forms

djazirah (pre-1967)
jasirah
jazirat

Etymology

From Malay jazirah, from Classical Malay jazirah, from Arabic جَزِيرَة‎ (jazīra, “peninsula”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaˈzirah/
Rhymes: -rah, -ah, -h
Hyphenation: ja‧zi‧rah

Noun

jazirah

peninsula
Synonym: semenanjung

References

Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936

Further reading

“jazirah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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