mercon

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese mercon (ꦩꦼꦂꦕꦺꦴꦤ꧀), suffixation of mercu (“fireball”) +‎ -an, from Tamil விரிசு (viricu).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mərˈt͡ʃɔn]
Hyphenation: mêr‧con

Noun

mercon (first-person possessive merconku, second-person possessive merconmu, third-person possessive merconnya)

firecracker.
Synonyms: mercun, petasan

Alternative forms

mercun (nonstandard Indonesian), mercun (Standard Malay: Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

References

Hoogervorst, Tom (2015). "Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia". Archipel. 89: 75.

Further reading

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

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