kerak bumi

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of kerak (“crust”) +‎ bumi (“Earth”).

Noun

kerak bumi (plural kerak-kerak bumi)

1. (geology) Earth's crust: the thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume

Further reading

• “kerak bumi”, 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