nasi

See also: Nasi, naši, naşî, nãsi, nāsi, Näsi, nāsī, nasi', and наши

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑː.si/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

nasi (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Cooked rice.

Hyponyms

• nasi goreng

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيء‎ (nasīʔ, literally “postponement”).

Alternative forms

• nasi'

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəˈsiː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

nasi (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪˌsaɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

nasi

1. plural of nasus

Anagrams

• ANSI, ASIN, ISNA, Isan, Nias, Sain, Sani, Sian, Sina, anis, as in, nais, nias, sain

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Old Malay nasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi

1. cooked rice

Derived terms

• nasi guring
• nasi kabun
• nasi lamak

See also

• baras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

Dutch

Etymology

From Indonesian nasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.si/

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• Hyphenation: na‧si
• Rhymes: -ɑsi

Noun

nasi m (uncountable)

1. Indonesian-style processed rice (mainly about fried rice in general)
   1. nasi goreng: Indonesian fried rice (originally from Javanese cuisine)

Derived terms

• nasibal
• nasi goreng

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay nasi, from Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi (first-person possessive nasiku, second-person possessive nasimu, third-person possessive nasinya)

1. nasi, cooked rice
2. (figuratively) livelihood, luck, fortune

Derived terms

• nasi aking
• nasi anjing
• nasi ayam hainan
• nasi bakar
• nasi beriani
• nasi campur
• nasi detus
• nasi gandul
• nasi gila
• nasi golong
• nasi goreng
• nasi goreng mawut
• nasi gurih
• nasi jaha
• nasi jamblang
• nasi jinggo
• nasi kebuli
• nasi kepal
• nasi kerak
• nasi kucing
• nasi kuning
• nasi kunyit
• nasi lemak
• nasi lemang
• nasi lengat
• nasi lengko
• nasi liwet
• nasi mangkuk
• nasi megana
• nasi padang
• nasi pulut
• nasi punar
• nasi putih
• nasi rames
• nasi rawon
• nasi samin
• nasi sega
• nasi tim
• nasi timbel
• nasi tumpeng
• nasi tungkus
• nasi uduk
• nasi ulam

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: nasi

See also

• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“paddy field”)

Further reading

• “nasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

nasi m

1. plural of naso

Anagrams

• ansi, sani

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Compare Malay nasi, and Old Javanese nasi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧si
• IPA^(key): /ˈnasiʔ/, [ˈnäː.siʔ]

Noun

násî

1. cooked rice

See also

• single

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.siː/, [ˈnäːs̠iː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.si/, [ˈnäːs̬i]

Noun

nāsī

1. inflection of nāsus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Javanese ꦤꦱꦶ (nasi), Old Javanese nasi (“cooked rice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nasi], [nasiʔ]
• Rhymes: -asi, -si, -i

Noun

nasi (Jawi spelling ناسي‎, informal 1st possessive nasiku, 2nd possessive nasimu, 3rd possessive nasinya)

1. cooked rice

Derived terms

• nasi campur
• nasi goreng
• nasi kandar
• nasi lemak

Descendants

• Indonesian: nasi
• → English: nasi

See also

• sawah (“paddy field”)
• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

Further reading

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi

1. cooked rice

See also

• bras (“husked rice (unboiled)”)
• pari (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“irrigated rice field”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɕi/

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• Rhymes: -aɕi
• Syllabification: na‧si

Pronoun

nasi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of nasz

Sakizaya

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 梨(なし) (nashi, “pear”).

Noun

nasi

1. pear (fruit)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Prepositional phrase

nasi

1. Contraction of na sisi: and us, or with us

See also

Object-inflected forms of na

		Singular	Plural
1st person		nami	nasi
2nd person		nawe	nanyi
3rd person	m-wa(I/II)	naye	nao
	m-mi(III/IV)	nao	nayo
	ji-ma(V/VI)	nalo	nayo
	ki-vi(VII/VIII)	nacho	navyo
	n(IX/X)	nayo	nazo
	u(XI)	nao	see n(X) or ma(VI)
	ku(XV/XVII)	nako
	pa(XVI)	napo
	mu(XVIII)	namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.si]

Noun

nasi

1. Alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)

References

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