sirkel

From Dutch cirkel, from Middle Dutch cirkel, from Latin circulus or Old French cercle, itself from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsər.kəl/

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sirkel (plural sirkels, diminutive sirkeltjie)

1. (geometry) circle

Borrowed from English circle, from Middle English circle, cercle, from Old French cercle and Latin circulus, diminutive of Latin circus (“circle, circus”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to Old English hring (“ring”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsirkəl/ [ˈsir.kəl]
• Rhymes: -irkəl
• Syllabification: sir‧kel

sirkel (plural sirkel-sirkel)

1. (colloquial) circle (specific group of persons)

• “sirkel”, 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

Borrowed from Latin circulus.

sirkel m (definite singular sirkelen, indefinite plural sirkler, definite plural sirklene)

1. a circle (two-dimensional outline geometric figure)

• sirkle

• “sirkel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin circulus.

sirkel m (definite singular sirkelen, indefinite plural sirklar, definite plural sirklane)

1. a circle (two-dimensional outline geometric figure)

• “sirkel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.