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lemak.

fat

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun[ləˈmaʔ]

  1. fat a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue

  2. fat the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts

  3. fat a lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids

  4. grease animal fat in a melted or soft state

  5. grease any oily or fatty matter

    broadly

  6. lipid: any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body

    proscribed
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay lemak, from Proto-Malayic *ləmək, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”). * The sense of tasty, delicious is a semantic loan from Minangkabau lamak whether directly or indirectly through intermediate/precedent Malay dialects, from the same Proto-Malayic term.

adj[ləˈmaʔ]

  1. tasty, delicious

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay lemak, from Proto-Malayic *ləmək, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”). * The sense of tasty, delicious is a semantic loan from Minangkabau lamak whether directly or indirectly through intermediate/precedent Malay dialects, from the same Proto-Malayic term.

noun[ləˈmaʔ]

  1. hoven's carp, mad barb, sultan fish (Leptobarbus hoevenii)

    dialectal
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