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suku.

part

4 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsuku/Standard-Indonesian[ˈsu.ku]Standard-Indonesian
  1. part

  2. quarter (a fourth part of something)

  3. half rupiah

  4. numerator and denominator

  5. clan (a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief)

  6. ethnicity, ethnic group

  7. family (a category in the classification of organisms)

  8. term (a type of value (variable or constant) or expression)

  9. a traditional unit of gold weight, equal 6.7 grams

  10. foot

    obsolete
  11. footer (a printed line of information)

  12. diacritic mark of traditional scripts representing /u/ vowel.

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay suku, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suku (“one quarter; designation for a division of society, probably a lineage”). * The “clan” sense is a semantic loan from Minangkabau suku. * The “limb or leg” sense is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦸꦏꦸ (suku). * The “footer” sense is a semantic loan from English footer.

noun/ˈsuku/Standard-Indonesian[ˈsu.ku]Standard-Indonesian
  1. a snack consisting of sticky rice cooked with coconut milk, served with grated coconut or salted fish

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Berau Malay [Term?].

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