Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

konfrontasi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kon-frontasi
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian konfrontasi, from Dutch confrontatie.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: confrontatie

Questions

What does konfrontasi mean?: the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore)
Where does konfrontasi come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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