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bulan.

moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbulan/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbu.lan]Standard-Indonesian
  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)

    Bulan malam ini sangat bulat.
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)

    Bulan Titan yang mengorbit planet Saturnus memiliki kandungan hidrokarbon yang signifikan.
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

    Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense “any natural satellite of a planet” is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (“moon”).

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