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 === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /aˈnakan/ [aˈna.kan] Rhymes: -akan Syllabification: a‧na‧kan === Noun === anakan (plural anakan-anakan) (economics, finance) interest Synonyms: bunga, renten, riba young plant or animal (botany) tiller: a shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker young animal, especially for breeding anakan burung ― nestling brood: the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. the young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. (meteorology) tornadic waterspout === Further reading === “anakan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016