akaun
Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English account, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”). Compare with Tok Pisin akaun.
Pronunciation
- (schwa-variety) IPA(key): /eˈkaun/ [eˈka.un] (English-based)
Audio (Malaysia): (file)
- (Baku) IPA(key): /aˈkaun/ [aˈka.un]
Audio (Malaysia): (file)
- Rhymes: -aun, -un
- Hyphenation: a‧ka‧un
Noun
akaun (Jawi spelling اکاءون, plural akaun-akaun or akaun2)
- An account:
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- (banking) A bank account.
- akaun Maybank ― Maybank account
- (computing, Internet) A user account.
- akaun YouTube ― YouTube account
- (banking) Savings stored in a bank and the records related with it.
- (informal) The field or subject of accounting.
Derived terms
Affixations
- perakaunan
Compounds
- akaun bank (“bank account”)
- akaun beku (“frozen account”)
- akaun bersama
- akaun lapuk
- akaun luput
- akaun pendapatan dan perbelanjaan
- akaun penerima sahaja
- akaun semasa (“transaction account”)
- akaun simpanan (“savings account”)
- akaun T
- akaun untung rugi
Further reading
- "akaun" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Borrowed from English account. Compare with Malay akaun.
Noun
akaun