Peranakan

See also: peranakan

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Malay peranakan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəɹanəˈkan/, /pəɹanəˈkɑːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəɹænəˈkæn/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹɑːnəkɑːn/, /-ɑkɑːn/

Noun

Peranakan (plural Peranakans or Peranakan)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) 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) also known as Nanyang.

Hyponyms

• Baba (male)
• Nyonya (female)

Coordinate terms

• singkek
• totok

Derived terms

• Peranakan Indonesian

See also

• Sangley
• Chinese mestizo / Mestizo de Sangley
• mestizo / mestiza