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peranakan.

womb, uterus

9 characters4 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun[pəraˈnak̚an]

  1. womb, uterus

    direct · uncommon

  2. descendant; offspring

  3. a mixed-race person, especially one of native Indonesian (typically Austronesian, but also Melanesian) and foreign ancestry

  4. a mixed-race person, especially one of native Indonesian (typically Austronesian, but also Melanesian) and foreign ancestry a Peranakan person (descendants of the 15th- through 17th-century Chinese immigrants to the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago)

    broadly · historical
Where this word comes from

From anak + per- -an, from Malay peranakan.

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