polusi

Borrowed from English pollution, from Anglo-Norman pollutiun, from Middle French pollution, pollucion, from post-classical Latin pollutio.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /poˈlusi/ [poˈlu.si]
• Rhymes: -usi
• Syllabification: po‧lu‧si

polusi (plural polusi-polusi)

1. pollution

   Synonym: pencemaran

   polusi air ― water pollution

   polusi udara ― air pollution

   polusi suara ― sound pollution

   • 2017 October 16, “Masyarakat Diajak Kurangi Polusi [Society Urged to Reduce Pollution]”, in Suara Merdeka‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2018:

     Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (KLHK) mengajak masyarakat turut serta menurunkan polusi di Indonesia, dengan cara menjaga hutan dan naik transportasi umum. Hal itu perlu dilakukan seiring dengan perubahan iklim di Tanah Air yang sangat mengkhawatirkan.

     The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) urges the society to participate in reducing pollution in Indonesia by protecting the forest and riding public transportation. This needs to be done in line with climate change in the homeland which is very worrying.

• polutan (“pollutant”)

• “polusi”, 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