perlu.
to need
Meaning & usage
to need
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay perlu, from Javanese ꦥꦼꦂꦭꦸ (perlu), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “obligation”). Doublet of fardu. Displaced native usah (“must; now chiefly in negative”), and Proto-Malayic *sa(n)dat, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadat (“in need, in want”) (whence Iban sandat and Tagalog salat) according to ACD.
necessarily; inevitably; obligatorily
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay perlu, from Javanese ꦥꦼꦂꦭꦸ (perlu), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “obligation”). Doublet of fardu. Displaced native usah (“must; now chiefly in negative”), and Proto-Malayic *sa(n)dat, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadat (“in need, in want”) (whence Iban sandat and Tagalog salat) according to ACD.
necessary, inevitable, obligatory
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay perlu, from Javanese ꦥꦼꦂꦭꦸ (perlu), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “obligation”). Doublet of fardu. Displaced native usah (“must; now chiefly in negative”), and Proto-Malayic *sa(n)dat, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadat (“in need, in want”) (whence Iban sandat and Tagalog salat) according to ACD.
Try it on your idea.
perlu has 5 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.