anakan

Affixed anak (“child”) +‎ -an, from Malay anakan, from Classical Malay انقن (anakan).

• Sense of interest in economics or finance is a semantic loan from Chinese 利子 (“interest”, literally “benefit, profit + child, son”) or Japanese 子(し) (shi, “interest”, literally “child”). Compare to Javanese anakan (ꦲꦤꦏꦤ꧀, “interest”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈnakan/ [aˈna.kan]
• Rhymes: -akan
• Syllabification: a‧na‧kan

anakan (plural anakan-anakan)

1. (economics, finance) interest

   Synonyms: bunga, renten, riba

2. young plant or animal
   1. (botany) tiller: a shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker
   2. young animal, especially for breeding

      anakan burung ― nestling

   3. brood:
      1. the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
      2. the young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (meteorology) tornadic waterspout

• “anakan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016