kuarantin

Malay

Etymology

From English quarantine, from Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port,[1] from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).

Noun

kuarantin (Jawi spelling کوارنتين, plural kuarantin-kuarantin)

  1. quarantine, a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.

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References

  1. ^ “kuarantin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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