buah pinggang
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of buah (“product”) + pinggang (“waist”), inherited from Malay buah pinggang, probably calque from Hokkien 腰子 (io-chí, “kidney”, literally “waist + child; son”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buah pinggang (first-person possessive buah pinggangku, second-person possessive buah pinggangmu, third-person possessive buah pinggangnya)
- (colloquial) kidney.
- Synonym: ginjal
Further reading
[edit]- “buah pinggang” 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.
Malay
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Indonesian: buah pinggang
Further reading
[edit]- “buah pinggang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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