English
Peranakan
Peranakan comes from Malay peranakan ‘a Peranakan person’.
- Malaymodernperanakan‘a Peranakan person’
- EnglishtodayPeranakan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Malaymodernperanakan‘a Peranakan person’
- EnglishtodayPeranakan
Every English word from Malay peranakan
Today it means
noun 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).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay peranakan / Peranakan