lemas
See also: Lemas
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay lemas (“suffocate; drowning”).
- Semantic loan from Javanese ꦊꦩꦼꦱ꧀ (lemes, “pliant, supple; weak, soft; refined, smooth; yielding”), Old Javanese lĕmĕs (“pliancy, suppleness, slenderness; softness, silkiness”).
- Semantic loan from Sundanese lemes (“refined, smooth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ləˈmas/ [ləˈmas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: le‧mas
Adjective
[edit]lêmas (comparative lebih lemas, superlative paling lemas)
- weary (exhausted to the point of weakness, from exertion)
- pliant (easy to bend, not rigid)
- flexible, supple
- Synonym: lentur
- weak, soft
- Synonym: lemah
- polite, refined, courteous
- Synonym: halus
- gentle
- Synonym: lemah lembut
- (dialect) suffocating, stifling
- (dialect) asphyxiated
- (pathology) adynamia: lack or loss of strength, usually due to a disease
- Synonym: adinamia
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lemas”, 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
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lemes. Compare Cebuano lumos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -as
Adjective
[edit]lemas (Jawi spelling لمس, comparative lebih lemas, superlative paling lemas)
Noun
[edit]lemas (Jawi spelling لمس, plural lemas-lemas or lemas2)
Derived terms
[edit]- dilemaskan (to let someone be drowned or suffocated)
- melemaskan (to drown or suffocate someone)
- pelemas (someone who died of either drowning or suffocation; a person who kills victims by means of either drowning or suffocation)
- perlemasan (act of either drowning or suffocating)
- terlemas (drowned; suffocated)
Descendants
[edit]- > Indonesian: lemas (inherited)
Further reading
[edit]- "lemas" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]lemas
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lemas m pl
Categories:
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian semantic loans from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian semantic loans from Sundanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Sundanese
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/as
- Rhymes:Indonesian/as/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian adjectives
- Indonesian dialectal terms
- id:Pathology
- Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Rhymes:Malay/as
- Rhymes:Malay/as/2 syllables
- Malay lemmas
- Malay adjectives
- Malay nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese noun forms
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/emas
- Rhymes:Spanish/emas/2 syllables
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish noun forms