Indonesian–English dictionary

barang

(business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. [from 15th c.]

barang belanjaan

Recently bought goods.

barang dagangan

(uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

barang jaminan

(finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.

barang-barang

(business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. [from 15th c.]

barangkali

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. [from 13th c.]

barase

(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.

Barat

(chiefly, India, poetic) India: the Republic of India.

barat daya

The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

barat laut

The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.

barbeku

A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

barbekyu

A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

barbel

A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.

barbir

A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

bardi

(usually, uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.

barel

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

barikade

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

baring

(colloquial)

baris

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

barisan

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

barisan depan

(obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.

baru

Recently made, or created.

baru saja

Having happened a short while ago.

barut

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

basa

(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.

basah

Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

basalt

(mineral) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

basemen

(architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.

basi

No longer fashionable.

basian

Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

basilika

(architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.

basis

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

basmi

(transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.

batang

The trunk or stem of a tree.

batang busur

(archery) The main body of a bow.

batangan

A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

batas

A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

batasan

An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.

Batavia

A province and capital city of Indonesia.

baterai

(electrical, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.

batok kepala

(skeleton) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

batrik

The male head of a household or nuclear family.

batu

(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.

batu akik

A gem, usually made of minerals.

batu apung

A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.

batu asah

A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.

batu bara

(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

batu besi

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

batu kaca

(mineral) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.

batu kapur

An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.

batu kendan

(mineral) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.

batu kulansing

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

batu las

A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.

batu longsor

A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.

batu lumut

A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

batu nisan

A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.

batu pasir

A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

batuk

Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

bau

A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

baur galat

(computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.

bausastra

A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. [ca. 1480]

bawa

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

bawa pulang

(North America) (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.

bawaan

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

bawah

The lowest part of anything.

bawah tanah

(architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.

bawang

A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

bawang batak

(in the plural, or, attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

bawang putih

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

bawasir

(pathology, often, in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

bayam

A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.

bayangan

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

bayangkan

(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

bayar

(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

bayaran

Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.

bayi lahir mati

A baby that is born dead.

Bayu

(Hinduism) The god of wind in Hindu and Vedic religion. A primary deity, father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

bea

(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.

beachhead

(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material

beasiswa

A monetary award to university students that allows them to continue their studies.

bebal

Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.

beban

The amount of money levied for a service.

beban kuliah

(education) An assignment, project or task that a student is required to complete as part of a particular course, which is then assessed and counts towards the grade given.

beban lebih

An excessive load.

beban taklangsung

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

bebas

(legal) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. [from 15th c.]

bebat

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

bebatan

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

bebatuan

(uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.

bebek jantan

A male duck.

beberan

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

bebesaran

(countable) The fruit of this tree.

becak

A rickshaw, mostly used as taxi, with two wheels in the back for the carriage and one wheel for steering in the front (or sometimes vice versa), propelled by the action of a driver’s feet upon pedals.

becquerel

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq

beda

(intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

beda potensial

(electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.

bedah

(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

bedah mayat

A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

bedak

(cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.

bedasarkan

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

bedebah

(informal, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly, _) Used as an intensifier.

bedil sundut

A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

begal

One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.

bego

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

beguk

(pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

beha

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

behel

(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.

Beirut

The capital and largest city of Lebanon.

bek

(sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

bekas

(of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.

bekel

A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.

bekerja

(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

bekicot

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

beku

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

bel

(percussion instrument) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

bel pintu

A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.

belah ketupat

(shapes, heraldiccharge) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.

belajar

(academic, transitive) To take a course or courses on a subject.

belakang

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

belalai

The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

belalang

In the strict sense, refers to insects in the suborder Caelifera, particularly those in the family Acrididae.

Belanda

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

belang

A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

belanja

The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.

belanjaan

Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.

belantika

A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

Belarus

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

Belarusia

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

belas kasih

(by extension, psychology) Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such experiences, as reflected by the psychological term self-compassion.

belati

(weapons) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

belatung

A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]

belek

(uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).

belencong

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

belerang

(biblical) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

Belfast

The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.

Belgia

A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.

beli

(transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).

Belize

An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras.

belok

(intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.

belokan

Deviation (of a needle or other indicator or mechanism) from a previous position.

belokkan

(transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.

beludak

A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.

beludru

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

belukar

A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

belut

Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

benang

(Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.

benang gigi

A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

benang lungsin

(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.

benang pakan

(weaving) The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.

benar

To be correct in one's judgment or statement about something. (This entry is a translation hub.)