ban berjalan
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of ban + berjalan, calque of Dutch lopende band (“conveyor belt”, literally “walking band”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ban.berjalan/
- Hyphenation: ban‧ber‧ja‧lan
Noun
ban berjalan (plural ban-ban berjalan)
- conveyor belt
- Synonym: sabuk angkut
- Bulan lalu, video seorang pria menjilati botol kecap di ban berjalan restoran sushi menjadi viral dan memicu kemarahan publik Jepang.
- Last month, a video of a man licking a soy sauce bottle on a sushi restaurant's conveyor belt went viral and sparked outrage in Japan.
- assembly line
- Synonym: jalur perakitan
Further reading
- “ban berjalan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016