pembalasan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixation of balas + peng- -an.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /pəmbaˈlasan/ [pəm.baˈlas.an]
- Rhymes: -asan
- Syllabification: pem‧ba‧las‧an
Noun
pembalasan (plural pembalasan-pembalasan)
- revenge, vengeance
- retaliation
- Synonym: retaliasi
- compensation
- answering (back), replying
Further reading
- “pembalasan”, 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