pantai

Compare Malay pantai.

• IPA^(key): /pantaj/
• Hyphenation: pan‧tai

pantai

1. beach

Inherited from Malay pantai.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpantai̯/ [ˈpan̪.t̪ai̯]

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• Rhymes: -antai̯
• Syllabification: pan‧tai

pantai (plural pantai-pantai)

1. beach
2. coast, seashore, shore

   Synonym: pesisir

pantai (comparative lebih pantai, superlative paling pantai)

1. sloping, slanting (down to the coast)

• “pantai” 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pantay (“flat, level (of ground)”). Compare Tagalog pantay (“flat, level”). Note also resemblance to an areal Southeast Asian word for "sea", represented by Chinese 蓬萊／蓬莱 (pénglái).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpantaj/ [ˈpan̪.t̪ai̯]
• Hyphenation: pan‧tai
• Rhymes: -antai̯

pantai (Jawi spelling ڤنتاي, plural pantai-pantai)

1. beach, coast

• “pantai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.