qasar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic قَصْر (qaṣr, “shortening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈqa.sar/, /ˈka.sar/
• Rhymes: -sar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: qa‧sar

Noun

qasar (plural qasar-qasar, first-person possessive qasarku, second-person possessive qasarmu, third-person possessive qasarnya)

1. (Islam) shortened number of genuflections in a daily prayer.

Alternative forms

• kasar

Derived terms

• mengqasar

 

Further reading

• “qasar” 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.