pantai

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Compare Malay pantai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pantaj/
• Hyphenation: pan‧tai

Noun

pantai

1. beach

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay pantai.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpantai̯/ [ˈpan.t̪ai̯]

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• Rhymes: -antai̯
• Syllabification: pan‧tai

Noun

pantai (plural pantai-pantai)

1. beach.
2. coast, seashore, shore.

   Synonym: pesisir

Adjective

pantai

1. sloping, slanting (down to the coast).

Derived terms

• berpantai
• berpantaikan
• dipantai
• memantai
• perpantaian

• pantai bakau
• pantai berbatu
• pantai berkarang
• pantai berlumpur
• pantai berpasir
• pantai laut
• pantai netral
• pantai ria
• pantai selatan
• pantai terdeposisi

Further reading

• “pantai” 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.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pantay (“flat, level (of ground)”). Compare Tagalog pantay (“flat, level”). Note also resemblance to an areal Southeast Asian word for "sea", represented by Chinese 蓬萊／蓬莱 (pénglái).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpantaj/ [ˈpan.t̪ai̯]
• Hyphenation: pan‧tai
• Rhymes: -antai̯

Noun

pantai (Jawi spelling ڤنتاي, plural pantai-pantai, informal 1st possessive pantaiku, 2nd possessive pantaimu, 3rd possessive pantainya)

1. beach, coast

Further reading

• “pantai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.