alasan

See also: Alasan

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧la‧san

Noun

alasan

1. a reddish-brown horse; a chestnut
2. the color chestnut

Adjective

alasan

1. of the colour chestnut

Galician

Verb

alasan

1. third-person plural present indicative of alasar

Indonesian

Etymology

Reconstructed as alas (“base”) +‎ -an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalasan/
• Hyphenation: alas‧an
• Rhymes: -an, -n

Noun

alasan (plural alasan-alasan, first-person possessive alasanku, second-person possessive alasanmu, third-person possessive alasannya)

1. proof
2. argument
3. reason
4. excuse

Further reading

• “alasan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.