kanvas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch canvas, from Middle Dutch canevas, from Old Northern French canevas, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of kanabis and kampas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanvas]
• Hyphenation: kan‧vas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

kanvas

1. canvas, a piece of canvas cloth on which one may paint

Further reading

• “kanvas”, 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