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garam.

salt:

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈɡa.ram]
  1. salt: a common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative

  2. salt: one of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid

  3. ellipsis of garam dapur (“table salt”)

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis
  4. (salt-like) fertilizer

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

From Malay garam, from Classical Malay garam (“table salt”), from Proto-Malayic *garəm (“grain”). The chemistry sense is a semantic loan from Dutch zout (“salt”).

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