preman

English

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preman (Indonesian gangster)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Indonesian preman, from Dutch vrijman (“freeman”). Doublet of freeman.

Noun

preman (plural premans or premen)

1. A member of an organized criminal gang in Indonesia.

Anagrams

• Perman

Galician

Verb

preman

1. inflection of premer:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch vrijman (“freeman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛ.man]
• Hyphenation: prè‧man

Noun

prèman (plural preman-preman)

1. freeman,
   1. not part of government

      Synonyms: partikelir, swasta

   2. not part of military

      Synonyms: partikelir, sipil

2. property of a freeman
3. (colloquial) criminal

   Synonym: penjahat

Descendants

• → English: preman

Further reading

• “preman”, 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