lontar
English edit
Etymology edit
From Balinese lontar, Indonesian lontar, from Old Javanese rontal.
Noun edit
lontar (plural lontars or lontar)
- The palmyra or leaves of this tree as used for palm-leaf manuscripts in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.
- 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 128:
- The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved.
- 2000, Raechelle Rubinstein, Beyond the Realm of the Senses, page 26:
- The technology of lontar writing in Bali, on the other hand, has never severely impeded the circulation of texts.
Further reading edit
- Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) gives a new life to palm-leaf manuscripts, a blog entry from Diff that has several photos and discusses lontar reading, preservation, and digitization efforts
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Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
lontar
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Etymology 2 edit
From Javanese lontar, rontal (ꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦂ, ꦫꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦭ꧀), from Old Javanese lontar, rontar, rontal, compound of ron (“leaf”) + tal, tala (“palm”), from Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palm”).
Noun edit
lontar (first-person possessive lontarku, second-person possessive lontarmu, third-person possessive lontarnya)
- lontar:
- the tree (Borassus flabellifer).
- Synonym: siwalan
- the leaf
- the palm-leaf manuscript
- the tree (Borassus flabellifer).
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Further reading edit
- “lontar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.