lepas

See also: Lepas

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

lepas (plural lepases)

1. Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lepas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale

Estonian

Noun

lepas

1. inessive singular of lepp

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lepas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ləˈpas]
• Hyphenation: lê‧pas

Adjective

lêpas

1. free

   Synonym: bebas

2. unbound, unchained

   Antonyms: terikat, tertambat

3. escaped
4. released
5. (now dated) after

   Synonyms: sehabis, selepas, sesudah

Hyponyms

• lepas angin
• lepas ayam
• lepas bebas
• lepas buku
• lepas burung
• lepas cakap
• lepas kendali
• lepas kira-kira
• lepas landas
• lepas liar
• lepas malu
• lepas pantai
• lepas tangan
• lepas unggas

 

Derived terms

• berlepas
• kelepasan
• lepasan
• melepas
• melepasi
• melepaskan
• memperlepas
• pelepas
• pelepasan
• selepas
• selepas-lepas
• terlepas

 

Further reading

• “lepas” 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

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas.

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (lapas), in inflected form marlapas (current spelling berlepas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləpas/
• Rhymes: -epas, -pas, -as
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ləˈpäs]

Adjective

lepas (Jawi spelling لڤس)

1. after, past, ago.

   Synonyms: selepas, sehabis, sesudah, setelah

2. free or escaped.

   Synonym: bebas

3. unbound, unchained; released.

   Antonyms: terikat, tertambat

4. (informal) to give birth.
5. (informal, slang) be safe.

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pelepas [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• pelepasan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• lepasan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• kelepasan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• lepaskan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• lepasi [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
• melepas [agent focus] (meN-)
• melepaskan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• melepasi [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
• dilepas [patient focus] (di-)
• dilepaskan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
• dilepasi [patient focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (di- + -i)
• terlepas [agentless action] (teR-)
• berlepas [stative / habitual] (beR-)
• memperlepas [causative agent focus] (mempeR-)
• diperlepas [causative passive focus] (dipeR-)
• selepas [immediacy / habitual] (se-)

Verb

lepas (Jawi spelling لڤس)

1. to unbound
2. to release

Descendants

• Indonesian: lepas

Further reading

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