kuarto

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• cuarto — obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• kuwarto, kwarto — informal

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuarto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɾto/ [ˈkwɐɾ.to]
• Hyphenation: ku‧ar‧to

Noun

kuarto

1. room
2. bedroom

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kuˈarto/ [kuˈar.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -arto
• Syllabification: ku‧ar‧to

Etymology 1

Internationalism

Noun

kuarto (plural kuarto-kuarto)

1. (publishing) quarto (paper size; book size)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hitu [Term?]. Probably cognate Spanish cuarto (“service (particularly to a king or queen)”).

Noun

kuarto (plural kuarto-kuarto)

1. servant of the king of Hitu, Maluku, during the royal era

Further reading

• “kuarto”, 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