lebat
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Iban[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lebat
- thick
- Buk lebat ― Thick hair
- fruitful (of tree)
- Lada kami lebat endar bebuah taun tu
- Our pepper plants are really fruitful this year.
- heavy (of rain)
- much obtained
- Lebat kayau kami sekali tu, nadai siku bala enda bedengah
- We gained much while headhunting, not one of us did not take a victim.
- routinely (in speaking and writing)
- Leka jaku Laut ‘pentingʼ lebat amat dikena kitai Iban bejaku kemaya haritu.
- The Malay loan word 'penting' is routinely used by us Ibans nowadays.
Malay[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective[edit]
lebat (Jawi spelling لبت)
Further reading[edit]
- “lebat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.