Etymology

Konfrontasi

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Today it means: the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore) Full definition →

Dutch confrontatie
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromconfrontatie
  2. English todayKonfrontasi

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian konfrontasi, from Dutch confrontatie.

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