bangsa

bangsa

1. Romanization of ᬩᬗ᭄ᬲ

From Malay bangsa, from Classical Malay بڠسا (bangsa), from Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”). Doublet of wangsa. Cognate of Tagalog bansa (“nation”).

• IPA^(key): /baŋ.sa/

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• Hyphenation: bang‧sa

bangsa (plural bangsa-bangsa, first-person possessive bangsaku, second-person possessive bangsamu, third-person possessive bangsanya)

1. group of people, animals, or plants with shared origin and the same characteristic
   1. (politics) nation: community group with shared ancestral-line, custom, language, and history, also had its own sovereignty; community group usually formed due to the sense of unity in terms of national linguistic and cultural in general, and also inhabit specific region on earth

      Synonyms: wangsa, dinasti (“dynasty”)

      bangsa India kuno; bangsa Indonesia kuno; bangsa Mesir kuno ― ancient Indians; ancient Indonesians; ancient Egyptians

      bangsa Mongol adalah masyarakat nomad yang banyak mendiami daerah Mongolia ― Mongols are nomad community predominantly inhabit the region of Mongolia

      saya merupakan seorang yang berbangsa Indonesia, namun saya berkewarganegaraan Belanda ― I'm someone with Indonesian nationality, but I have the Netherlands' citizenship

   2. (archaic) sex.

      anak itu lahir berkelamin bangsa jantan ― that child was born with the male sex

      Synonym: jenis kelamin

   3. (countable, biology, taxonomy) order: taxonomy unit (taxon) between the family and class, also functioned as the umbrella term for family which cognates to one another (in plants, the family names end with -ales, e.g. Zingiberales)

      Synonym: ordo

   4. (rare) race: a group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.

      Synonym: ras

   5. (obsolete) clan

      Synonyms: klan, marga, wangsa

2. type, kind, sort

   tersedia segala makanan bangsa kue-kue ― there are foods with the type of cakes

3. prestige

   bahasa menunjukkan bangsa ― the language represents (the prestige of) nation

4. (obsolete) highborn, noble

   Synonym: bangsawan

5. (obsolete) dynasty

   Synonyms: wangsa, dinasti

• “bangsa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bangsa

1. (Indonesia) Romanization of ꦧꦁꦱ

From Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage; bamboo”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás (“ceiling beam”). Cognate of Javanese ꦧꦁꦱ (bangsa). Doublet of wangsa.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ.sə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ.sa/
• Rhymes: -aŋsə, -ŋsə, -sə, -ə

bangsa (Jawi spelling بڠسا, plural bangsa-bangsa, informal 1st possessive bangsaku, 2nd possessive bangsamu, 3rd possessive bangsanya)

1. (politics) nation: community group with shared ancestral-line, custom, language, and history, also had its own sovereignty; community group usually formed due to the sense of unity in terms of national linguistic and cultural in general, and also inhabit specific region on earth
2. (limited) ethnicity

   Synonyms: etnik, kaum

• Indonesian: bangsa
• → Iban: bansa
• → Mansaka: bansa
• → Maranao: bansa
• → Pangutaran Sama: bangsa
• → Tagalog: bansa (learned)
• → Ternate: bangsa

• Edi Sedyawati, Ellya Iswati, Kusparyati Boedhijono, Dyah Widjajanti D. (1994) Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, →ISBN, page 21

• “bangsa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Malay bangsa, from Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás (“ceiling beam”). Cognate of Tagalog bansa.

bangsa

1. group

bangsa

1. Romanization of ᮘᮀᮞ.

From Malay bangsa, from Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”). Cognate of Tagalog bansa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋ.sa]
• Rhymes: -a

bangsa

1. nation

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh