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Etymology

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Compound of pinjam (borrow) +‎ terjemah (translate), calque of Dutch leenvertaling.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪnd͡ʒam tərd͡ʒəˈmah]

Noun

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pinjam terjemah (first-person possessive pinjam terjemahku, second-person possessive pinjam terjemahmu, third-person possessive pinjam terjemahnya)

  1. (linguistics) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
    Kata "sepeda motor" adalah kata pinjam terjemah dari bahasa Belanda "motorfiets".
    The word "sepeda motor" is a calque of the Dutch "motorfiets".
    Synonym: kalke