berapa

a word from vocabulary Indonesian by Uri Tadmor  
Word form berapa
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning how much? how many?
Comments on word Adelaar (1992:128) derives berapa from *bara/ ‘a marker of uncertainty or indefiniteness of object or number’ + *apa what. In modern Indonesian appears to derive from apa ‘what’ and the prefix ber- which can mean ‘to consist of N’, as in kita bertiga ‘the three of us’.
Analyzability semi-analyzable
Age Early Malay [27] (500–1700)
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