pasar malam
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay pasar malam.
Noun
pasar malam (plural pasar malams)
- (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia) A night market.
- 2010, Neil Humphreys, Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition, page 19:
- Pasar malams are fabulous though, aren't they? The night markets are one of the highlights of living in Singapore […]
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian pasar malam.
Noun
pasar malam m (plural pasar malams)
Related terms
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of pasar (“market”) + malam (“night”), inherited from Malay pasar malam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpasar ˈmalam]
Noun
pasar malam (plural pasar-pasar malam)
Descendants
- → Dutch: pasar malam
Further reading
- “pasar malam”, 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
Malay
Etymology
Compound of pasar (“market”) + malam (“night”).
Noun
pasar malam (Jawi spelling ڤاسر مالم)
Descendants
- Indonesian: pasar malam
- → Dutch: pasar malam
- → Chinese:
- Mandarin: 巴剎馬蘭/巴刹马兰 (bāshāmǎlán)
- → English: pasar malam
- → Russian: па́сар ма́лам (pásar málam)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: pasar malam
- Cyrillic script: пасар малам
- → Spanish: pasar malam
Further reading
- “pasar malam”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay pasar malam.
Noun
pasar malam m (plural pasar malam)
- an Indonesian or Malay night market