bulan sabit

Inherited from Malay bulan sabit. Compound of bulan +‎ sabit.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌbulan ˈsabit/ [ˌbu.lan ˈsa.bɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -abit
• Syllabification: bu‧lan sa‧bit

bulan sabit (plural bulan-bulan sabit)

1. crescent: The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.

• “bulan sabit”, 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

Compound of bulan (“moon”) +‎ sabit (“sickle”), literally “sickle moon”.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˌbulan ˈsabet/ [ˌbu.lan ˈsa.bet̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -abet, -et

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˌbulan ˈsabit/ [ˌbu.lan ˈsa.bit̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -abit, -it
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan sa‧bit

bulan sabit (plural bulan-bulan sabit)

1. crescent: The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.^[1]

bulan sabit

1. crescent: Shaped like a crescent.

• > Indonesian: bulan sabit (inherited)

• “bulan sabit”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017