eklips

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch eclips (“eclipse”), from Old French eclipse, from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”), from ἐκλείπω (ekleípō, “I abandon, go missing, vanish”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and λείπω (leípō, “I leave behind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.lips/
• Hyphenation: èk‧lips

Noun

eklips

1. (rare, astronomy) eclipse, passage of a planetary object between others

   Synonym: gerhana

Further reading

• “eklips”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016