sesar

Inherited from Malay sesar.

• The sense “fault” probably is a semantic loan from Japanese ずれ (zure, “slippage, a gap, shear”), a synonym of 斷層(だんそう) (dansō, “fault”, literally “gap”).

• IPA^(key): [səˈsar]
• Rhymes: -sar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: sê‧sar

sêsar (plural sesar-sesar, first-person possessive sesarku, second-person possessive sesarmu, third-person possessive sesarnya)

1. (seismology) fault: A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

   Synonym: patahan

sêsar

1. (dated) to slide

   Synonym: geser

• “sesar” 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.