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emban.

waistband, breast band, belly band

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/əmˈban/Standard-Indonesian[əmˈban]Standard-Indonesian
  1. waistband, breast band, belly band

  2. nursemaid

Where this word comes from

From Malay emban, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həban, from Proto-Austronesian *SəbaN (“carry a child with a carrying cloth”). * The sense of nursemaid is a semantic loan from Javanese emban (“nursemaid”), cf. Old Javanese ĕmban, hĕmban (“that which carries or encloses; assistant and guardian”), more likely have same source as Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həban with infix -em-.

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