senang

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian senang or Malay senang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈnɑŋ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: se‧nang
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Adjective

senang (not comparable)

  1. (Netherlands) comfortable, at ease, pleasant
    • 2013, Trudy Coenen & Louise Koopman, Spijbelen doe je maar thuis. Het verhaal van een docent op het vmbo, Artemis (Ambo/Anthos).
      Hier voelde ik me senang.
      This is where I felt comfortable.
    • 2020, Harry Piet, quoted in Drogisterij Amsterdam haalt zwarte gaper van gevel, NOS.
      Mijn medewerkers voelden zich de afgelopen dagen niet meer senang in de winkel.
      During the past few days my employees no longer felt at ease in the shop.

Declension

Declension of senang
uninflected senang
inflected senang
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial senang
indefinite m./f. sing. senang
n. sing. senang
plural senang
definite senang
partitive senangs

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay senang (easy). The senses of happy, content, pleased, and loved are semantic loan from Betawi senang (happy, pleased) or semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦼꦤꦼꦁ (seneng, happy, glad, pleased; like), the cognate in Javanese.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈnaŋ/
  • Hyphenation: sê‧nang

Adjective

senang

  1. happy
    Synonyms: bahagia, suka
  2. content, pleased
    Synonym: puas
  3. (figurative) love
    Synonyms: sayang, suka
  4. (dialect) well
    Synonym: baik
  5. (dated, dialect) easy
    Synonyms: mudah, praktis

Derived terms

Further reading

Maguindanao

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA(key): /səˈnaŋ/
  • Rhymes: -aŋ
  • Syllabification: se‧nang

Noun

sënáng

  1. sun

Malay

Pronunciation

Adjective

senang (Jawi spelling سنڠ)

  1. easy
    Synonym: mudah
    Antonyms: susah, sukar
  2. happy
    Synonyms: gembira, seronok
    Antonym: sedih
  3. content, pleased
    Synonym: puas
  4. (figurative) love
    Synonyms: sayang, suka

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: senang
  • Dutch: senang
  • Hokkien: (sēr-nang)
  • Teochew: (si7 nang1)
  • Cantonese: (si nang)

Further reading

Maranao

Noun

senang

  1. sun