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Peranakan

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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Received-Pronunciation: /pəɹanəˈkan/
Received-Pronunciation: /pəɹanəˈkɑːn/
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
General-American: /pəɹænəˈkæn/
Singapore: /pəˈɹɑːnəkɑːn/
Singapore: /-ɑkɑːn/

noun

Meaning 1

A descendant of the 15th- through 17th-century Chinese immigrants to the Malay Peninsula and Nusantara (Indonesian Archipelago), now part of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Southern Thailand).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Nanyang

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Malay peranakan.

Word forms

Inflections and variants

Peranakans — plural
Peranakan — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: Peranakan Indonesian

Related: Sangley, Chinese mestizo, Mestizo de Sangley, mestizo, mestiza

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hyponyms: Baba, Nyonya

Coordinate Terms: singkek, totok

Sources

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Real reading context

Meaning relationships

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