rendang

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rendang, from Minangkabau randang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛnˈdæŋ/, /ˈɹɛnˌdæŋ/

Noun

rendang (usually uncountable, plural rendangs)

1. An Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.
   • 2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Look for gado-gado and lothek, a pair of vegetable salads with crunchy highlights, awash in sauce that’s hand-ground (and spiced to order) for each customer; combro, a deep-fried, chili-spiked croquette of grated cassava; satay plates of skewered beef and chicken, accompanied by peanut sauce and blocks of sticky rice; the long-simmered stew called beef rendang; chicken or beef noodle soup; and cendol, iced coconut milk laden with green rice noodles and tiny cubes of colored jelly, and laced with palm sugar.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay rendang, from Classical Malay رندڠ (rĕndang), from Minangkabau randang, from Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Compare Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ɣənɛ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rənˈdaŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ, -ŋ
• Hyphenation: rên‧dang

Noun

rêndang (plural rendang-rendang)

1. rendang (dish made of beef or other ingredients cooked in chilies and coconut milk until dry)

Alternative forms

• randang

Derived terms

• direndang
• merendang
• perendangan

• beras rendang
• kentang rendang
• pisang rendang
• sagu rendang

Further reading

• “rendang” 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 1

From Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Cognate of Minangkabau randang, Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ṛənᵈɛ). First attested in the classical Malay literary work Hikayat Amir Hamzah as early as the 1550s, which had been translated into Malay from the Persian original.

The second sense is a semantic loan from Minangkabau randang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rənˈdaŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ

Noun

rendang (Jawi spelling رندڠ, plural rendang-rendang)

1. (obsolete) frying in nothing more than a little oil or fat; dry-currying

   Synonym: goreng

2. (obsolete) to fricassee
3. (obsolete) to sauté

   Synonym: tumis

4. rendang, a rich, spicy meat curry of Minangkabau origin made by slowly cooking in coconut milk until dry

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• perendangan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• merendang [agent focus] (meN-)
• direndang [patient focus] (di-)

Coordinate terms

• panggang
• goreng
• selar

Descendants

• Indonesian: rêndang
• → English: rendang

References

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “رندڠ rĕndang”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 11
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “رندڠ rĕndang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, pages 156-7
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “rĕndang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 330

Etymology 2

Compare with rindang. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛn.daŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ

Adjective

réndang (Jawi spelling ريندڠ)

1. shady (of tree)

   Synonyms: rampak, teduh

Descendants

• Indonesian: rindang

References

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “رندڠ rendang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 343
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “rendang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 330

Further reading

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