buzem

Borrowed from Dutch boezem (“body of water without a fully controlled water level”, literally “bosom”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuzəm/ [ˈbu.zəm]
• Rhymes: -uzəm
• Syllabification: bu‧zem

buzem (plural buzem-buzem)

1. reservoir, artificial lake.

   Synonyms: danau buatan, waduk

• “buzem”, 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