cokelat

Indonesian

cokelat

Etymology

From dialectal Dutch (Standard Dutch chocolade, archaic form chocolaad), from Spanish chocolate, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl (compare Malay coklat). The current pronunciation is influenced by English chocolate (see Malay coklat), or the second -o- of chocolade is dropped.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔkəˈlat/ [t͡ʃɔ.kəˈlat̪̚]

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• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: co‧ke‧lat

Noun

cokêlat (plural cokelat-cokelat)

1. (countable) chocolate (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans)

   Synonym: kakao

   sebatang cokelat ― a bar of chocolate

2. (uncountable) brown (color)

   cokelat:  

   Synonyms: kerbing, pirang, soga

   Synonym: perang (Malay)

   rambut berwarna cokelat ― brown colored hair

3. burnt umber

   cokelat:  

Alternative forms

• coklat, soklat (nonstandard)
• chocolade (1901–1947)
• coklat (chocolate, Standard Malay)

Derived terms

Affixations

• kecokelat-cokelatan
• kecokelatan
• mencokelatkan
• pencokelatan

Compounds

• bondol cokelat
• cokelat bubuk
• cokelat hitam
• cokelat kovertur
• cokelat putih
• cokelat susu

Further reading

• “cokelat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• Daftar Istilah Warna [Color Glossary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1984, page 4