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 *lɔŋsɔr. Doublet of lungsur.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈloŋsor/ [ˈloŋ.sor]
• Rhymes: -oŋsor
• Syllabification: long‧sor

Noun

longsor (plural longsor-longsor)

1. avalanche
2. earthflow, soilflow: a downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
3. landslide: a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.

Synonyms

• رونتوه (runtuh) (Standard Malay)

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

1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ