kuarantin

Malay

Etymology

From English quarantine, from Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port,[1] from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”)

Noun

kuarantin (plural kuarantin-kuarantin, informal 1st possessive kuarantinku, impolite 2nd possessive kuarantinmu, 3rd possessive kuarantinnya)

  1. quarantine, a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.

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References
  1. “kuarantin” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
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