ceban

Betawi

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 一萬 / 一万 (chi̍t-bān, “ten thousand”).

Numeral

ceban

1. ten thousand

Descendants

• → Indonesian: ceban

Galician

Verb

ceban

1. third-person plural present indicative of cebar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Betawi ceban (“ten thousand”), from Hokkien 一萬 / 一万 (chi̍t-bān, “ten thousand”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈban/ [t͡ʃəˈban]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ce‧ban

Numeral

cêban

1. (colloquial) ten thousand

   Synonym: sepuluh ribu

Further reading

• “ceban”, 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

Spanish

Verb

ceban

1. third-person plural present indicative of cebar