bancakan
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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed bancak (“the container of tumpeng”) + -an, from Javanese ꦧꦚ꧀ꦕꦏꦤ꧀ (bancakan).
Pronunciation
Noun
bancakan (first-person possessive bancakanku, second-person possessive bancakanmu, third-person possessive bancakannya)
- slametan: a (Javanese) communal feast, held to celebrate numerous types of event.
- (Java) dish(es) of food made available at such a feast
- (figurative, derogatory) something, such as money, distributed with corruptive nature, referring to previous definition and Sekaten tradition of tumpeng distribution.
Further reading
- “bancakan” 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.
Javanese
Romanization
bancakan
- Romanization of ꦧꦚ꧀ꦕꦏꦤ꧀