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belanja.

expense (a spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/bəˈland͡ʒa/Standard-Indonesian[bəˈlaɲ.d͡ʒa]Standard-Indonesian
  1. expense (a spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds)

  2. expenditure the act of expending money or paying out

  3. expenditure the amount of expended money

  4. salary; wages (one's total income for a time period)

    rare
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay belanja. Ultimately derived from Pali valañja (“that which is spent or secreted”). * Semantic loan from Javanese ꦧ꧀ꦭꦚ꧀ꦗ (blanja) for "to spend, to pay out" sense.

verb/bəˈland͡ʒa/Standard-Indonesian[bəˈlaɲ.d͡ʒa]Standard-Indonesian
  1. colloquial/imperative of berbelanja

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay belanja. Ultimately derived from Pali valañja (“that which is spent or secreted”). * Semantic loan from Javanese ꦧ꧀ꦭꦚ꧀ꦗ (blanja) for "to spend, to pay out" sense.

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