bulan

Pronunciation: /ˈbulan/

“bulan” is an Indonesian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
month (period into which a year is divided)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense “any natural satellite of a planet” is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (“moon”).

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More Indonesian words

bukun
bula
bulai
Bulan
bulan madu
bulan sabit
Bulan Sabit Merah
bulanan

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