kimus
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χῡμός (khūmós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkimʊs/
- Rhymes: -mʊs, -ʊs, -s
- Hyphenation: ki‧mus
Noun
kimus (plural kimus-kimus, first-person possessive kimusku, second-person possessive kimusmu, third-person possessive kimusnya)
- (physiology) chyme: the thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
Alternative forms
- kim (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “kimus” 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.
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