garasi

Banoni

Etymology

Borrowed from English grass.

Noun

garasi

1. grass

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch garage, from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈra.si]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧si

Noun

garasi (first-person possessive garasiku, second-person possessive garasimu, third-person possessive garasinya)

1. garage, a building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

   Synonym: kandang mobil

Alternative forms

• garaj (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

• “garasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.