buang sirih
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of buang (“to throw away”) + sirih (“betel”), literally “to throw away a betel”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.aŋ ˈsi.rɪh/
Verb
- (intransitive) to exclude someone from a kinship group
- (intransitive) to consider someone no longer a relative
Further reading
- “buang sirih”, 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