cokelat

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

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔ.kəˈlat/

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• Rhymes: -lat, -at

cokêlat (plural cokelat-cokelat, first-person possessive cokelatku, second-person possessive cokelatmu, third-person possessive cokelatnya)

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

   sebatang cokelat ― a bar of chocolate

2. (uncountable) brown (color)

   cokelat:  

   rambut berwarna cokelat ― brown colored hair

• soklat
• coklat (Indonesian)
• chocolade (pre-1947)
• (chocolate): coklat (Standard Malay)

• (color): pérang (Standard Malay)

• “cokelat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.