pinjam terjemah

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪnd͡ʒam tərd͡ʒəˈmah]

Noun

pinjam terjemah (plural pinjam-pinjam terjemah)

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.

   Synonym: kalke

   Kata "sepeda motor" adalah kata pinjam terjemah dari bahasa Belanda "motorfiets".

   The word "sepeda motor" is a calque of the Dutch "motorfiets".