anakan

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈanakan]

Noun

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

1. (economics, finance) interest

   Synonyms: bunga, renten, riba

2. 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

3. (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 Indonesia, 2016.