• DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online
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    10 hours ago

    A bit of context for the Indonesian one, the way “moon” is used there is similar to month, so it’s basically “the time of the month is here” said as “datang bulan”

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      It’s the same in English. Menstruation, month, and moon all derive from the Ancient Greek word for the moon.