nasabah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay [Term?], from Arabic نَسَبَ (nasaba, “to correlate”), نِسْبَة (nisba, “relationship, affiliation”).

• Displaced Dutch relatie (“relation, relationship”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈsabah/
• Rhymes: -bah, -ah, -h
• Hyphenation: na‧sa‧bah

Noun

nasabah (plural para nasabah, nasabah-nasabah, first-person possessive nasabahku, second-person possessive nasabahmu, third-person possessive nasabahnya)

1. (banking, finance) customer, client
2. ratio, proportion

   Synonym: perbandingan

3. relation, connection.

   Synonym: pertalian

Derived terms

• nasabah bermasalah
• nasabah utama

 

Related terms

• nisbah

 

Further reading

• “nasabah” 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.