getah - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Malay getah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.
gêtah (plural getah-getah)
- sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- latex: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
- Synonym: lateks
- (biology) fluid, juice: a clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
- Synonym: cecair (Malaysian)
- “getah” 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.
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.
getah (Jawi spelling ݢته, plural getah-getah, informal 1st possessive getahku, 2nd possessive getahmu, 3rd possessive getahnya)
- latex, gum: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air.
Potong buah sukun ni kena berhati-hati sikit, getahnya senang melekat kat tangan.
- Careful with cutting breadfruit, its sap sticks easily on the hands.
- (Riau) sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (uncountable, countable, except Indonesia) rubber:
- pliable material derived from coagulated sap of introduced Hevea brasiliensis; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- Synonym: karet
- Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- Synonym: lateks
- pliable material derived from coagulated sap of introduced Hevea brasiliensis; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
Affixed terms and other derivations
- Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ݢته gĕtah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 100
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ݢته gĕtah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 562
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “gĕtah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 364-4
- “getah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.