perlu

Pronunciation: /pərˈlu/

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

verb

to need

adverb

necessarily; inevitably; obligatorily

adjective

necessary, inevitable, obligatory

Etymology

Inherited from Malay perlu, from Javanese ꦥꦼꦂꦭꦸ (perlu), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “obligation”). Doublet of fardu. Displaced native usah (“must; now chiefly in negative”), and Proto-Malayic *sa(n)dat, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadat (“in need, in want”) (whence Iban sandat and Tagalog salat) according to ACD.

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