lemak

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləmea̯ʔ/

Noun

lemak

1. fat, grease
2. soapstone

Adjective

lemak

1. fatty taste

   Lemak amat kachang guring tu diempa

   These fried ground nuts have a fatty taste when eaten

2. (of speech) pleasant seeming; too good to be true

   Jaku iya lemak

   His speech is too good to be true

Verb

lemak

1. suppurate (to form pus)

   Telih iya belemak

   His wound is suppurating.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ləˈmaʔ]
• Rhymes: -maʔ
• Hyphenation: lê‧mak

Etymology 1

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, from the same Proto-Malayic term.

Noun

lêmak

1. fat
   1. a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue
   2. the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts
   3. 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
2. grease
   1. animal fat in a melted or soft state
   2. (by extension) any oily or fatty matter

Adjective

lêmak (dialectal)

1. tasty, delicious

   Synonyms: enak, lezat, sedap

Derived terms

Affixations

• berlemak
• pelemakan

 

Compounds

• lemak adiposa
• lemak coklat
• lemak darah
• lemak hewani
• lemak jenuh
• lemak kakao
• lemak kulit
• lemak mentega
• lemak mineral
• lemak nabati
• lemak oles
• lemak punggung
• lemak putih
• lemak subkutan
• lemak susu
• lemak tak jenuh
• lemak telo
• lemak trans
• lemak tubuh
• lemak tulang
• lemak viseral
• lemak wol
• nasi lemak

 

Etymology 2

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Noun

lêmak

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

   Synonym: jelawat

Further reading

• “lemak” 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.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləmaʔ/, [ləˈmäʔ]
• Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

Noun

lemak (Jawi spelling لمق, plural lemak-lemak, informal 1st possessive lemakku, 2nd possessive lemakmu, 3rd possessive lemaknya)

1. fat, grease

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• berlemak [stative / habitual] (beR-)

• nasi lemak

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: lemak

Further reading

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