Where does “nasi” come from?

Nasi comes from Arabic nāsīʾ, meaning a postponement or deferment of payment.

nasi (English): The intercalation of a month in the calendar of...

Definitions

  1. The intercalation of a month in the calendar of...

Ancestry of “nasi”, step by step

nasi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay nasi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaynasicooked rice
2Proto-Malayic*nasi(ʔ)cooked rice
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*asi—

via Arabic نَسِيء

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicنَسِيء—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi →Every word from Proto-Malayic *nasi(ʔ) →Every word from Malay nasi →