Selamat pagi — when you wish to greet someone in the morning; Selamat tengahari — when it’s noon (normally around 12:00 p.m. until after 3 p.m.). Selamat petang — typically used around 4 p.m. and it extends until night time, up until 11:59 p.m. Selamat malam — when you want to sleep; Selamat tinggal/Babai — when you want to bid Instrumental - All about our school, no 1 (© Kate Walker / BBC) Video Transcript. Selamat pagi, jambo, hei! Yassas, hola, konichiwa, tung! Whatever way we say ‘Hello’, It always means the In Indonesian we have pagi (from pre-dawn until around 10 or 11:00), siang (from around 11:00 to around 14–15:00), sore (from around 15:00 to nightfall) and malam (from nightfall to dawn). Even though malam refers to the dark hours, Indonesians get up early and hence may greet you with “ Selamat Pagi” at 03:00 in the morning! Malay pagi “morning” is of uncertain origin. Wiktionary claims it could be ultimately derived from Sanskrit prage “crack of dawn”, either way, unrelated to Tagalog pagi “stringray”, deriving from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS, whose true Malay cognates is pari . The shared Selamat and Salamat are both ultimately loans from Arabic .

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