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kalangan.

dry dock, slip.

8 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/kaˈlaŋan/Standard-Indonesian[kaˈlaŋ.an]Standard-Indonesian

  1. dry dock, slip.

  2. shipyard.

Where this word comes from

Affixation of kalang (“underlayer; support; bracket, prop, stay; buttress”) + -an.

noun/kaˈlaŋan/Standard-Indonesian[kaˈlaŋ.an]Standard-Indonesian

  1. circle (of friends, people, etc)

  2. society

  3. arena, circle

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Affixation of kalang (“arena, circle; realm”) + -an. Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦔꦤ꧀ (kalangan, “arena, circle; realm”).

noun/kaˈlaŋan/Standard-Indonesian[kaˈla.ŋan]Standard-Indonesian

  1. markets that operate on certain days only

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Malay [Term?] (Jambi Malay).

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