bancakan

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Etymology

Affixed bancak (the container of tumpeng) +‎ -an, from Javanese ꦧꦚ꧀ꦕꦏꦤ꧀ (bancakan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /banˈt͡ʃakan/
  • Hyphenation: ban‧cak‧an

Noun

bancakan (first-person possessive bancakanku, second-person possessive bancakanmu, third-person possessive bancakannya)

  1. slametan: a (Javanese) communal feast, held to celebrate numerous types of event.
    Synonyms: kenduri, sedekah, selamatan
  2. (Java) dish(es) of food made available at such a feast
  3. (figurative, derogatory) something, such as money, distributed with corruptive nature, referring to previous definition and Sekaten tradition of tumpeng distribution.

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

bancakan

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦚ꧀ꦕꦏꦤ꧀