Appendix:False friends between Indonesian and Standard Malay (B)

This is a list of Indonesian-Malay false friends, that is, word pairs similar in appearance but different in meaning. Diacritics are shown for clarity in this table (while they are not usually written). Translations may be approximated; see linked entries for details.

Indonesian	Standard Malay	Translation, Indonesian only	Translation, Both	Translation, Standard Malay only	Notes
baja	baja	steel	-	fertilizer
bajak	bajak	pirate	plough	-
baki	baki	tray	-	balance, residue
ban	ban	tyre; tape	-	bun (small bread roll)
banci	banci	transvestite	-	census
bandar	bandar	coastal town; bookmaker, bookie; dealer; watercourse, ditch	port, harbour	city
bangun	bangun	to build	wake up (from sleep)	to develop
bangsa	bangsa		nation	race; ethnicity
banting	banting	slam (verb)	-	banteng
bapa	bapa	Father (Christianity)	-	father
bas	bas	bass (music), boss	-	bus (transportation)
batuk kêring	batuk kering	dry cough	-	tuberculosis
bêlanja	belanja	to shop	to spend	to treat
bêndahara	bendahara	treasurer (male or neutral), prime minister (obsolete)		vizier
bêndahari	bendahari	female treasurer	-	treasurer
bênduan	banduan	detainee, internee, prisoner;	-	convict
bénténg	bénténg		fort; rook (chess piece)	embankment
bêrbagi	berbagi	to share	-	to give
bêrcinta	bercinta	to make love, to have sexual intercourse	to love	in love
bêrèdar	berédar		to oscillate (of planet); to distribute	to leave
berjaya	berjaya	successful, victorious		succeed, succeeded
berlaku	berlaku	apply		happen, occur
bêrupaya	berupaya		to make an effort, to do the best	capable
bêtung	betung	-	giant bamboo	sewer (pipe); a kind of frog; blackfin scad
biara	biara		non-Buddhist monastery, eg. Christian monastery	Buddhist monastery	Buddhist monastery in Indonesian is wihara, a Javanese cognate.
bicara	bicara	to speak, to say, to talk		to try (put on trial); to discuss
biji	biji	testicle (offensive)	seed
bila	bila	if, when (conjunction)		when (interrogative)
bilik	bilik	booth (an enclosure), chamber	room*		The sense of room is dated in Indonesian.
bilik persalinan	bilik persalinan	delivery room		dressing room
bina	bina	to develop		to build
bisa	bisa	venom	can, able
boga	boga	food	-	favourite
bola sepak	bola sepak	football (the ball)	-	football, soccer (the sport)
bon	bon	receipt; union, association	-	bond, debenture
bual	bual	to tell a lie		to chat, to converse
budak	budak	slave		kid
bulu tangkis	bulu tangkis	badminton		shuttlecock
bunga api	bunga api	spark		firework
buntut	buntut	tail		buttock
butuh	butuh	need	male genital		The male genital sense in Indonesian is dialectal.