berat

See also: Berat, berät, and bērāt

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/

Noun

berat

1. weight

Adjective

berat

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. hard: having a severe property; presenting difficulty.

   Synonyms: lembau, serut

3. hurried
4. hesitant

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay berat, from Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈrat/, [bəˈrat̪]
• Hyphenation: bê‧rat

Adjective

bêrat (superlative terberat)

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. grave, severe, serious in a negative sense.

   Akibat kecelakaan itu, dia menderita luka berat. ― Because of the accident, the person have serious injury.

3. hard: having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
4. inclinational
5. (figurative) cursed, ill-fated.

Synonyms

• (grave, serious): payah, parah
• (grave, serious): teruk (Standard Malay)
• (hard): sulit, susah
• (inclinational): cenderung, memihak
• (cursed, ill-fated): celaka

Noun

bêrat (plural berat-berat, first-person possessive beratku, second-person possessive beratmu, third-person possessive beratnya)

1. (classical mechanics) weight: the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

   Synonym: bobot

2. (colloquial) mass: the quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.

   Synonym: massa

Affixed terms

• berberat
• berkeberatan
• diperberat
• keberatan
• memberati
• memberatkan
• memperberat
• pemberat
• pemberatan
• terberat

 

Compounds

• berat bibir
• berat ekor
• berat hati
• berat hidup
• berat jenis
• berat kaki
• berat kepala
• berat lidah
• berat mata
• berat mulut
• berat otak
• berat pinggul
• berat sapih
• berat sebelah
• berat siku
• berat tangan
• berat telinga
• berat tulang

 

• alat berat

 

Related terms

• bobot

 

Further reading

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

Latvian

Verb

berat

1. second-person plural present indicative of bērt

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/
• Rhymes: -ərat, -rat, -at

• Audio (MY)

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Noun

berat (Jawi spelling برت‎, informal 1st possessive beratku, 2nd possessive beratmu, 3rd possessive beratnya)

1. (physics) weight

Adjective

berat (Jawi spelling برت‎)

1. heavy (having great weight), weight
2. onerous, arduous

Further reading

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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲerad/

Verb

·berat

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive conjunct of beirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·berat	·berat pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/	·mberat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.