pasta gigi

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of pasta (“paste”) +‎ gigi (“tooth”), literally “tooth paste”, a calque of Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌpasta ˈɡiɡi/ [ˌpas.t̪a ˈɡi.ɡi]
• Rhymes: -iɡi
• Syllabification: pas‧ta gi‧gi

Noun

pasta gigi (plural pasta-pasta gigi)

1. toothpaste

Synonyms

• obat gigi (colloquial)
• odol (informal)
• tapal gigi
• ubat gigi (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

• “pasta gigi”, 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