asimilasi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch assimilatie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [asi.miˈla.si]
• Hyphenation: asi‧mi‧la‧si

Noun

asimilasi (first-person possessive asimilasiku, second-person possessive asimilasimu, third-person possessive asimilasinya)

1. assimilation:
   1. the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
   2. (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.
   3. (biology, nutrition) the metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
   4. (sociology) the adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Derived terms

• berasimilasi
• diasimilasi
• diasimilasikan
• mengasimilasi
• mengasimilasikan
• pengasimilasian

 

• asimilasi fonemis
• asimilasi historis
• asimilasi identifikasi
• asimilasi jauh
• asimilasi kebudayaan
• asimilasi morfologis
• asimilasi perkawinan
• asimilasi Piaget
• asimilasi politik
• asimilasi progresif
• asimilasi regresif
• asimilasi resiprokal
• asimilasi sikap
• asimilasi struktural

 

Further reading

• “asimilasi” 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.

Malay

Etymology

From English assimilation. The linguistic sense is a semantic loan from Indonesian asimilasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.si.mi.la.si]
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: a‧si‧mi‧la‧si

Noun

asimilasi (Jawi spelling اسيميلاسي, plural asimilasi-asimilasi, informal 1st possessive asimilasiku, 2nd possessive asimilasimu, 3rd possessive asimilasinya)

1. Assimilation:
   1. (biology, nutrition) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
   2. (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

   3. The process of several different kinds or elements of something becoming one or more similar to each other.
   4. (sociology) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Affixations

• asimilasikan (“to assimilate something”)
• berasimilasi (“to assimilate”)
• pengasimilasian (“assimilation”)
• terasimilasi (“assimilated”)

 

Further reading

• “asimilasi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.