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malam

See also: Malam, malām, mālam, and maļam

Acehnese

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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malam

  1. height

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

Noun

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malam

  1. night

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Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /malam/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lam

Noun

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malam

  1. The time of the day between dusk and midnight; evening or night.

Hausa

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Etymology

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A clipping of malami.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /máː.làm/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [máː.làŋ]

Noun

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mālàm m (feminine mālàmā, plural mā̀làmai)

  1. mister, Mr.

Iban

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /malam/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lam

Noun

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malam

  1. night

Derived terms

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Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈma.lam/
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lam

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Malay malam, from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

Noun

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malam (plural malam-malam, first-person possessive malamku, second-person possessive malammu, third-person possessive malamnya)

  1. night
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Usage with names of days like Jumat (“Friday”), Senin (“Monday”):

  • When placed before the day name means "night before day": malam Jumat "night before Friday"
  • When placed after the day name means "night of day": Jumat malam "night of Friday"
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦭꦩ꧀ (malam), probably from Gujarati મલમ (malam, “ointment or paste made of wax”), from Classical Persian مرهم (marham), from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham).

Noun

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malam (plural malam-malam, first-person possessive malamku, second-person possessive malammu, third-person possessive malamnya)

  1. wax, paraffin, particularly for making batik

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Javanese

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Romanization

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malam

  1. Romanization of ꦩꦭꦩ꧀

Latin

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Adjective

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malam

  1. accusative feminine singular of malus

Verb

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mālam

  1. first-person singular future active indicative of mālō

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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malam (Jawi spelling مالم, plural malam-malam, informal 1st possessive malamku, 2nd possessive malammu, 3rd possessive malamnya)

  1. night
    Antonyms: siang, hari
    Selamat malam ― Goodnight

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: malam
  • → Ternate: malam

Further reading

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  • “malam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*malem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Ternate

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Etymology

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From Malay malam.

Pronunciation

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malam

  1. night, evening

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yakan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

Noun

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malam

  1. evening, eve
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