siluet
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch silhouet (“silhouette”), from French silhouette, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stern of zulo (“hole, cave”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ˈlu.ɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: si‧lu‧et
Noun
siluet (plural siluet-siluet, first-person possessive siluetku, second-person possessive siluetmu, third-person possessive siluetnya)
- silhouette
- (art) an illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
Synonyms
- bebayang (Standard Malay)
- siluet, silhuet (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
- bersiluet
- siluet A
- siluet H
- siluet kaisar
Further reading
- “siluet” 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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