biskuit
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch biscuit (“biscuit, cookie”), from French biscuit (“biscuit, cookie”), from Old French bescuit, from bescuire, equivalent to bis- + cuit, or from Medieval Latin biscoctus, from Latin bis (“twice”) coctus (“cooked”). Doublet of beskit.
Noun
biskuit (plural biskuit-biskuit, first-person possessive biskuitku, second-person possessive biskuitmu, third-person possessive biskuitnya)
Alternative forms
- biskut (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “biskuit” 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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