langsat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/
Noun
langsat (plural langsats)
- A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
- 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times:
- He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”
- 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39:
- He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.
Translations
fruit
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Anagrams
Brunei Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laŋsat/
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian langsat. From Malay langsat.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlaŋsat̚]
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
- Rhymes: -sat, -at, -t
Noun
langsat (first-person possessive langsatku, second-person possessive langsatmu, third-person possessive langsatnya)
- langsat; a cultivar of the tree Lansium domesticum
- fruit of this tree
Alternative forms
- langsep
- lansat
Further reading
- “langsat” 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laŋsat/
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
Audio (MY) (file) - Rhymes: -at
Noun
langsat (Jawi spelling لڠست, plural langsat-langsat, informal 1st possessive langsatku, 2nd possessive langsatmu, 3rd possessive langsatnya)
- langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)
Descendants
Further reading
- “langsat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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