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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch assimilatie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: asi‧mi‧la‧si
Noun
asimilasi (first-person possessive asimilasiku, second-person possessive asimilasimu, third-person possessive asimilasinya)
- assimilation:
- the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (linguistics, phonology) a sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
- (biology, nutrition) the metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (sociology) the adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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Malay
Etymology
From English assimilation. The linguistic sense is a semantic loan from Indonesian asimilasi.
Pronunciation
Noun
asimilasi (Jawi spelling اسيميلاسي, plural asimilasi-asimilasi, informal 1st possessive asimilasiku, 2nd possessive asimilasimu, 3rd possessive asimilasinya)
- Assimilation:
- (biology, nutrition) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (linguistics) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
- Synonym: penyesuaian
- The process of several different kinds or elements of something becoming one or more similar to each other.
- (sociology) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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