menit

Menit is a unit of time equal to sixty seconds, used in the Indonesian language to express duration and in everyday timekeeping. It is part of the standard time-keeping system in which the second is the base unit. For example, "tiga puluh menit" means thirty minutes, and "dua puluh satu menit" means twenty-one minutes. The term menit is a loanword from Dutch minuut, with Malay spelling minit for the same unit.

In writing, minutes are commonly abbreviated as min after a number (e.g., 12 min) or shown on clocks as part of the hour:minute format (e.g., 08:45). One hour equals sixty minutes, and one minute equals sixty seconds. The concept also has a related angular unit, arcminute, equal to 1/60 of a degree, usually written arcmin or denoted by a prime symbol (′).

Language variants: Indonesian uses menit, while Malay uses minit. Both terms share a common root in historical European and Asian linguistic exchange and reflect colonial-era contact with Dutch language.

See also: second, hour, arcminute, timekeeping.