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jalan

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒalan/

“jalan” is an Indonesian word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. road; way; street
  2. way
  3. roadway
  4. orbit
  5. chance
  6. intermediary (a person or tool in an intermediate position)
  7. forward and backward movement of a vehicle
  8. movement of the hands of a clock
  9. running (the sustainability of a company, organization, association, etc.)
  10. a teak tree with thick leaves
  11. the handle is made of teak wood

verb

  1. imperative/colloquial of berjalan

adjective

  1. understandable
  2. right

Etymology

Inherited from Malay jalan, from Proto-Malayic *jalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan. Doublet of jalang. * Displaced Dutch weg (“way, road”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944. Cognates * Cebuano dalan * Chamorro chalan * Iban jalai * Pattani Malay جالٍي (jalɛ) * Tagalog daan * Urak Lawoi'…

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