bahasa halus
Indonesian
Etymology
From bahasa (“language”) + halus (“refined”).
Noun
- (linguistics) polite register
- Antonym: bahasa kasar
Further reading
- “bahasa halus”, 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