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bangsa.

a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics.

6 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbaŋsa/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbaŋ.sa]Standard-Indonesian
  1. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. a nation; a people or folk: group or community with often shared ancestral-lines, custom, language, and history; usually formed due to a sense of unity in terms of national, linguistic, or cultural ties, whilst also typically inhabiting a specific region on earth

    bangsa India kuno; bangsa Indonesia; bangsa Mesir
    Bangsa Mongol adalah masyarakat nomad yang banyak mendiami daerah Mongolia
  2. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. sex

    archaic
    Anak itu lahir berkelamin bangsa jantan
  3. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. order: a taxonomy unit (taxon) between the family and class, also functioned as the umbrella term for family which cognates to one another (in plants, the family names end with -ales, e.g. Zingiberales)

    countable
  4. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. race: a group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics

    figuratively · rare
  5. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. a clan

    obsolete
  6. a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origins and characteristics. a dynasty; a house of noble lineage

    obsolete
  7. prestige

    figuratively · formal
    Bahasa menunjukkan bangsa
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay bangsa, from Classical Malay بڠسا (bangsa), from Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”). Doublet of wangsa. Cognate of Tagalog bansa (“nation”).

prep/ˈbaŋsa/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbaŋ.sa]Standard-Indonesian
  1. a type of, kind, sort; like

    colloquial
    Tersedia segala makanan bangsa kue-kue dan minuman
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, perhaps an apheretic form of sebangsa.

adv/ˈbaŋsa/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbaŋ.sa]Standard-Indonesian
  1. approximately; about, roughly

    colloquial
    Bangsa dua bulan lagi dia akan lulus
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, perhaps an apheretic form of sebangsa.

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