Wiktionary

rotan

See also: rötan

English

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Borrowed from Malay rotan (“cane”), doublet of rattan.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

rotan (plural rotans)

  1. (Singapore, Malaysia) A long rattan used to cane people as punishment for criminal acts.
    • 1949 November 5, The Straits Times, page 5 [newspaper]:
      Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were each sentenced to three strokes of the light rotan at Kluang for stealing duck eggs from Loh Wee Seng.
    • 1975 November 25, The Straits Times, page 6 [newspaper]:
      Zaimi Bin Rassak, 20, was yesterday jailed for two years with two strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty of trafficking in 32 rolls of cannabis in Queens Crescent on June 24 at 1 a.m.
    • 2008 February 9, The Straits Times, page 39 [newspaper]:
      Khushwant Singh, 38-year-old on the run for five years, put behind bars for six years and two months; gets six strokes of the rotan.

Etymology 2

edit

Borrowed from Russian рота́н (rotán, “Amur sleeper”).

Noun

edit

rotan (plural not attested)

  1. (uncommon) Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii)
    • 1998, Dianne Louise Draper, Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective, 1st edition, Toronto: ITP Nelson, →ISBN, page 5b:
      A single individual requires as much as 30 kg of other fish (including its own species) to gain 1 kg of weight. The resilience of the rotan, which requires 20 times less oxygen than other species, is best illustrated by its ability to revive a day after being left in open air. In one such instance, the first individual to rebound in a group ate up the others, according to Itar-Tass news agency.
    • 2007, Volodymyr I. Lushchak, Tetyana V. Bagnyukova, “Hypoxia induces oxidative stress in tissues of a goby, the rotan Perccottus glenii”, in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, volume 148, number 4, →DOI, pages 390–397:

Anagrams

edit

Finnish

edit

Noun

edit

rotan

  1. genitive/accusative singular of rotta

Anagrams

edit

Indonesian

edit

Etymology

edit

Affixed raut +‎ -an, inherited from Malay rotan.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /ˈro.tan/
  • Rhymes: -tan
  • Hyphenation: ro‧tan

Noun

edit

rotan (first-person possessive rotanku, second-person possessive rotanmu, third-person possessive rotannya)

  1. rattan

Derived terms

edit

Further reading

edit

Malay

edit

Etymology

edit

From raut +‎ -an, from raut (“to trim, pare down”),[1] doublet of rautan.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /ˈrotan/ [ˈro.t̪an]
  • (Cocos) IPA(key): [ˈʁo.t̪an], [ˈo.t̪an][2]
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

edit

rotan (Jawi spelling روتن, plural rotan-rotan, informal 1st possessive rotanku, 2nd possessive rotanmu, 3rd possessive rotannya)

  1. rattan (any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus)
  2. (by extension) rattan (a cane made from rattan)

Descendants

edit
  • Indonesian: rotan
  • → Afrikaans: rottang
  • → English: rattan
  • → English: rotan (noun)
  • → French: rotin

Verb

edit

rotan (Jawi spelling روتن)

  1. to cane with a rattan
  2. (by extension) to cane

Descendants

edit
  • → English: rotan (verb)

References

edit
  1. ^ Adelaar, K. Alexander (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology, Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 48
  2. ^ Craig D. Soderberg (2014-04) “Cocos Malay”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association‎[1], volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 103–107

Further reading

edit

Spanish

edit

Verb

edit

rotan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of rotar
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=rotan&oldid=80531753"