pembina

See also: Pembina

English

Alternative forms

• pimbina

Etymology

Likely from Canadian French pembina, pimbina, from Cree nîpiminâna or Ojibwe niibiminaa, an earlier form of aniibimin (“high-bush cranberry”).

Noun

pembina (plural pembinas)

1. Squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).
2. One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
   • 1922, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Prairie Smoke, page 25:

     And so, from that time, whenever a woman went out to gather June berries or wild cherries, or raspberries, or wild plums or pembinas or tipsin, or wild rice; or to their cultivated fields to gather corn or beans, she was not obliged to carry the load home.

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixation of peng- +‎ bina.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pəmˈbina/ [pəmˈbi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: pem‧bi‧na

Noun

pêmbina (plural pembina-pembina or para pembina)

1. coach
2. mentor
3. builder, constructor, establisher, former.
4. operative, performer, worker.
5. administrator, manager, officer-in-charge, supervisor.
6. patron.
7. (scouting) scout leader, scoutmaster, scouter, scout advisor, or scout counsellor.
8. (government) structural rank of civil servant group IV/a, one level below level one supervisor, one level above level one administrator

Hyponyms

• pembina data
• pembina industri
• pembina jasa konstruksi
• pembina tingkat satu
• pembina upacara
• pembina usaha
• pembina utama
• pembina utama madya
• pembina utama muda

Further reading

• “pembina”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016