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pasaran

Pronunciation: /paˈsaran/

“pasaran” is an Indonesian word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. market: a geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists
  2. market day: the day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location

adjective

  1. trading
  2. inferior (of quality)
  3. common, ordinary

Etymology

Constructed pasar (“market”) + -an, inherited from Malay pasaran. The sense of market day is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦥꦱꦫꦤ꧀ (pasaran).

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