asimilasi

Borrowed from Dutch assimilatie.

• IPA^(key): [asi.miˈla.si]
• Hyphenation: asi‧mi‧la‧si

asimilasi (plural asimilasi-asimilasi)

1. assimilation:
   1. the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated
   2. (linguistics, phonology) a sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs
   3. (biology, nutrition) the metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue
   4. (sociology) the adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture

• → Malay: asimilasi

• “asimilasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Indonesian asimilasi (“assimilation”).

• IPA^(key): [a.si.mi.la.si]
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: a‧si‧mi‧la‧si

asimilasi (Jawi spelling اسيميلاسي, plural asimilasi-asimilasi)

1. Assimilation:
   1. (biology, nutrition) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
   2. (linguistics) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

      Synonym: penyesuaian

   3. The process of several different kinds or elements of something becoming one or more similar to each other.
   4. (sociology) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

• “asimilasi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.