otak kecil
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of otak (“brain”) + kecil (“small”), calque of Dutch kleine hersenen (“cerebellum”, literally “small brain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /otaʔ ˈkəˈt͡ʃɪl/
Noun
otak kecil (plural otak-otak kecil)
- (neuroanatomy) cerebellum
- Synonym: serebelum
Further reading
- “otak kecil”, 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