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kelapa.

the coconut palm

6 characters3 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/kəˈla.pa/

  1. the coconut palm

    Dia memanjati kelapa untuk mengambil buahnya.

  2. a fruit of the coconut palm; coconut

    Aku makan kelapa.

  3. round, knuckle: a cut of hindquarters of a bovine

Where this word comes from

From Malay kelapa, from Classical Malay kelapa (cognate of Old Javanese kalapa, Javanese ꦏ꧀ꦭꦥ (klapa), Sundanese kalapa), probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *k-al-aqpaq (compare Indonesian pelepah from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq, reconstructed from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *p-al-aqpaq). Replaced alternative nyiur.

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