berat

See also: Berat, berät, and bērāt

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/

Noun

berat

1. weight

Adjective

berat

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. hard: having a severe property; presenting difficulty.

   Synonyms: lembau, serut

3. hurried
4. hesitant

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay berat, from Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈrat/, [bəˈrat̪]
• Hyphenation: bê‧rat

Adjective

bêrat (superlative terberat)

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. grave, severe, serious in a negative sense.

   Akibat kecelakaan itu, dia menderita luka berat. ― Because of the accident, the person have serious injury.

3. hard: having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
4. inclinational
5. (figurative) cursed, ill-fated.

Synonyms

• (grave, serious): payah, parah
• (grave, serious): teruk (Standard Malay)
• (hard): sulit, susah
• (inclinational): cenderung, memihak
• (cursed, ill-fated): celaka

Noun

bêrat (plural berat-berat, first-person possessive beratku, second-person possessive beratmu, third-person possessive beratnya)

1. (classical mechanics) weight: the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

   Synonym: bobot

2. (colloquial) mass: the quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.

   Synonym: massa

Affixed terms

• berberat
• berkeberatan
• diperberat
• keberatan
• memberati
• memberatkan
• memperberat
• pemberat
• pemberatan
• terberat

 

Compounds

• berat bibir
• berat ekor
• berat hati
• berat hidup
• berat jenis
• berat kaki
• berat kepala
• berat lidah
• berat mata
• berat mulut
• berat otak
• berat pinggul
• berat sapih
• berat sebelah
• berat siku
• berat tangan
• berat telinga
• berat tulang

 

• alat berat

 

Related terms

• bobot

 

Further reading

• “berat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Verb

berat

1. second-person plural present indicative of bērt

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/
• Rhymes: -ərat, -rat, -at

• Audio (Malaysia):

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Noun

berat (Jawi spelling برت, informal 1st possessive beratku, 2nd possessive beratmu, 3rd possessive beratnya)

1. (physics) weight

Adjective

berat (Jawi spelling برت)

1. heavy (having great weight), weight
2. onerous, arduous

Further reading

• “berat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲerad/

Verb

·berat

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive conjunct of beirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·berat	·berat pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	·mberat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.