"meter" meaning in Indonesian

See meter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛtər/ [Standard-Indonesian], [ˈmɛ.t̪ər] [Standard-Indonesian] Forms: mètêr [canonical], meter-meter [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtər Etymology: * From Dutch meter, meten, from Middle Dutch mēten, from Old Dutch metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). * From Dutch meter, from French mètre, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of metrum. Etymology templates: {{bor|id|nl|meter}} Dutch meter, {{der|id|dum|mēten}} Middle Dutch mēten, {{der|id|odt|metan}} Old Dutch metan, {{der|id|gem-pro|*metaną}} Proto-Germanic *metaną, {{der|id|ine-pro|*med-|t=to measure}} Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”), {{bor|id|nl|meter}} Dutch meter, {{der|id|fr|mètre}} French mètre, {{der|id|la|metrum}} Latin metrum, {{der|id|grc|μέτρον||measure}} Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), {{der|id|ine-pro|*meh₁-||to measure}} Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), {{doublet|id|metrum}} Doublet of metrum Head templates: {{id-noun|head=mètêr}} mètêr (plural meter-meter)
  1. meter, a device that measures things
    Sense id: en-meter-id-noun-JV6zUJ9D
  2. meter, metre, the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI)
    Sense id: en-meter-id-noun-kc1ADHet Categories (other): Indonesian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Indonesian entries with incorrect language header: 9 72 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meteran, meter arus, meter dinamik, meter geopotensial, meter kecepatan, meter konduktivitas, meter kubik, meter lintasan, meter persegi, meter salinitas Related terms: metrum
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛtər/ [Standard-Indonesian], [ˈmɛ.t̪ər] [Standard-Indonesian] Forms: mètêr [canonical], meter-meter [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtər Etymology: From Dutch meter, from Middle Dutch meter, from metrijn, from Latin matrīna. Etymology templates: {{bor|id|nl|meter}} Dutch meter, {{der|id|dum|meter}} Middle Dutch meter, {{der|id|la|matrīna}} Latin matrīna Head templates: {{id-noun|head=mètêr}} mètêr (plural meter-meter)
  1. godmother
    Sense id: en-meter-id-noun-hE1GOM7y
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Indonesian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.