anakan

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Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed anak (“child”) +‎ -an, from Malay anakan, from Classical Malay انقن (anakan).

Sense of interest in economics or finance is a semantic loan from Chinese 利子 (“interest”, literally “benefit, profit + child, son”) or Japanese 子(し) (shi, “interest”, literally “child”). Compare to Javanese anakan (ꦲꦤꦏꦤ꧀, “interest”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

anakan (first-person possessive anakanku, second-person possessive anakanmu, third-person possessive anakannya)

(economics, finance) interest
Synonyms: bunga, renten, riba
young plant or animal
1. (botany) tiller: a shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
2. young animal, especially for breeding
  anakan burung ― nestling
(meteorology) tornadic water spout.

Further reading

“anakan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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