langsat

English

Etymology

From Malay langsat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/

Noun

langsat (plural langsats)

1. A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
   • 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”

   • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39:

     He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.

Translations

fruit

• Brunei Malay: langsat
• Central Dusun: lansat
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蘆菇／芦菇 (lou⁴ gu¹)

  Cantonese: 龍貢／龙贡 (lung⁴ gung³)

  Hokkien: 龍貢／龙贡, 龙贡 (liông-kòng)

  Hokkien: 蘭撒／兰撒 (lân-sat)

• Czech: lansat
• Dutch: langsat
• Indonesian: langsat (id)
• Japanese: ランサ (ransa)
• Khmer: លាំងសាត (km) (lĕəngsaat)
• Korean: 랑삿 (rangsat)
• Malay: langsat (ms)
• Russian: лангсaт m (langsat)
• Spanish: lanzón
• Tagalog: lansones
• Thai: ลองกอง (lɔɔng-gɔɔng), ลางสาด (th) (laang-sàat), ดูกู (duu-guu)
• Tok Pisin: lansang
• Vietnamese: bòn bon (vi), dâu da đất

Anagrams

• alangst

Brunei Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laŋsat/
• Hyphenation: lang‧sat

Noun

langsat

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian langsat. From Malay langsat.

Noun

langsat m (uncountable)

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay langsat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaŋsat̚]
• Hyphenation: lang‧sat
• Rhymes: -sat, -at, -t

Noun

langsat (first-person possessive langsatku, second-person possessive langsatmu, third-person possessive langsatnya)

1. langsat; a cultivar of the tree Lansium domesticum
2. fruit of this tree

Usage notes

There are 3 terms for L. domesticum cultivars in Indonesian: duku, langsat and kokosan.

Alternative forms

• langsep
• lansat

Further reading

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

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laŋsat/
• Hyphenation: lang‧sat

• Audio (MY)

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• Rhymes: -at

Noun

langsat (Jawi spelling لڠست, plural langsat-langsat, informal 1st possessive langsatku, 2nd possessive langsatmu, 3rd possessive langsatnya)

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Descendants

• Indonesian: langsat
• → Dutch: langsat
• → English: langsat
• → Japanese: ランサ (ransa)
• → Khmer: លាំងសាត (lĕəngsaat)
• → Korean: 랑삿 (rangsat)
• → Min Nan: 蘭撒／兰撒 (lân-sat)
• → Russian: лангсат (langsat)
• → Thai: ลางสาด (laang-sàat)
• → Tok Pisin: lansang

Further reading

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