barang.
thing, item
Meaning & usage
thing, item
thing (unmentionable thing, e.g. penis)
good, commodity
baggage
pengambilan barang
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay barang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baraŋ (“marker of indefiniteness”). The meaning 'things, goods, possessions' was a late innovation in western Indonesia.
one of the notes in the slendro scale, symbolized by the number one
one of the notes in the pelog scale, symbolized by the number seven
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese barang (“a gamelan scale; a gamelan certain note”), from Old Javanese baraṅ (“a particular instrument in the gamĕlan ensemble”).
approximately
hopefully
marker of indefiniteness
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay barang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baraŋ (“marker of indefiniteness”). The meaning 'things, goods, possessions' was a late innovation in western Indonesia.
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