lapah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lapah, from Classical Malay لاڤه (lapah), from Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈla.pah]
Hyphenation: la‧pah

Verb

lapah

to skin; to flay; to fleece
to chop into pieces (of slaughtered cattle)
to tear, to pull apart, to rip with violence

Derived terms

dilapah
dilapahi
melapah
melapahi
pelapahan

Further reading

“lapah” 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.

Malay

Etymology

Attested in the Hikayat Iskandar Dzulkarnain, 1713 AD, as Classical Malay لاڤه (lapah).

From Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /la.pah/, [ˈlä.päh]
Rhymes: -pah, -ah

Verb

lapah (Jawi spelling لاڤه)

to flay; to skin; to strip; to tear off the skin

Usage notes

Especially used of skinning animals for the market or kitchen.

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

pelapah [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
pelapahan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
melapah [agent focus] (meN-)
dilapah [patient focus] (di-)

Descendants

Indonesian: lapah

Further reading

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

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

Verb

lapah

to swallow; to gulp down; to devour (as animals do to their prey)

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