tenaga kuda
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of tenaga (“power”) + kuda (“horse”), calque of Dutch paardenkracht (“horsepower”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt̪ənaɡa ˈkud̪a]
Noun
- (colloquial) synonym of daya kuda (“horsepower”)
Further reading
- “tenaga kuda”, 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