sesar

Indonesian

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Etymology

Inherited from Malay sesar.

• The sense “fault” probably is a semantic loan from Japanese ずれ (zure, “slippage, a gap, shear”), a synonym of 斷層(だんそう) (dansō, “fault”, literally “gap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [səˈsar]
• Rhymes: -sar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: sê‧sar

Noun

sêsar (plural sesar-sesar)

1. (seismology) fault: a fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity

   Synonyms: patahan, sesaran

Verb

sêsar (active menyesar, tersesar terbocorkan, ordinary passive disesar, imperative sesar, emphatic-jussive sesarlah)

1. (dated) to slide

   Synonym: geser

Verb

sêsar (active bersesaran)

1. to infiltrate
2. to smuggle

Derived terms

• bersesaran
• menyesar
• menyesarkan
• penyesaran
• sesaran

• alas sesar
• atap sesar
• sesar anjak
• sesar geser
• sesar mendatar
• sesar naik
• sesar normal
• sesar turun

Further reading

• “sesar”, 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