lemak

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

• IPA^(key): /ləmea̯ʔ/

lemak

1. fat, grease
2. soapstone

lemak

1. fatty taste

   Lemak amat kachang guring tu diempa

   These fried ground nuts have a fatty taste when eaten

2. (of speech) pleasant seeming; too good to be true

   Jaku iya lemak

   His speech is too good to be true

lemak

1. suppurate (to form pus)

   Telih iya belemak

   His wound is suppurating.

From Malay lemak, from Classical Malay لمق (lĕmak), from Proto-Malayic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”). The sense of tasty, delicious is a semantic loan from Minangkabau lamak, from the same Proto-Malayic.

• IPA^(key): [ləˈmak̚]
• Hyphenation: lê‧mak

lêmak (plural lemak-lemak, first-person possessive lemakku, second-person possessive lemakmu, third-person possessive lemaknya)

1. fat, grease
2. (zoology) Hoven's carp, mad barb, sultan fish (Leptobarbus hoevenii).

   Synonym: jelawat

lêmak

1. tasty, delicious

   Synonyms: enak, lezat, sedap

• “lemak” 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.

From Proto-Malayic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

• IPA^(key): /ləmaʔ/, [ləˈmäʔ]
• Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

lemak (Jawi spelling لمق, plural lemak-lemak, informal 1st possessive lemakku, 2nd possessive lemakmu, 3rd possessive lemaknya)

1. fat, grease

• Indonesian: lemak

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