Timor Timur
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Indonesian
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Etymology
[edit]Compound of Timor (“Timor island”, literally “east”) + Timur (“east”). Cognate of Portuguese Timor Leste and Tetum Timor Lorosa'e.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Timor Timur
- a former de facto province of Indonesia, whose territory corresponded to the previous Portuguese Timor and to the presently independent country of East Timor
Usage notes
[edit]Indonesian clearly distinguishes the names for the sovereign state of East Timor or Timor-Leste and the former Indonesian province of East Timor, the former is known as Timor Leste. Unlike English, these terms are not interchangeable in Indonesian.