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INDONESIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

anakan.

interest

6 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/aˈnakan/Standard-Indonesian[aˈna.kan]Standard-Indonesian
  1. interest

  2. young plant or animal tiller: a shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker

  3. young plant or animal young animal, especially for breeding

    anakan burung
  4. young plant or animal brood: the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

  5. young plant or animal brood: the young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.

  6. tornadic waterspout

Where this word comes from

Affixed anak (“child”) + -an, from Malay anakan, from Classical Malay انقن (anakan). * Sense of interest in economics or finance is a semantic loan from Chinese 利子 (“interest”, literally “benefit, profit + child, son”) or Japanese 子(し) (shi, “interest”, literally “child”). Compare to Javanese anakan (ꦲꦤꦏꦤ꧀, “interest”).

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