hutan hujan

Malay

Etymology

From hutan (“forest”) +‎ hujan (“rain”), a calque of English rainforest, itself a calque of German Regenwald.

Noun

hutan hujan (Jawi spelling هوتن هوجن, plural hutan-hutan hujan or hutan2 hujan)

  1. rainforest

Further reading

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