nasi

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑː.si/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsi

nasi (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Cooked rice.

• nasi goreng
• nasi ambeng

Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيء (nasīʔ, literally “postponement”).

• nasi'

• IPA^(key): /nəˈsiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

nasi (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪˌsaɪ/

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nasi

1. plural of nasus

• ANSI, ASIN, ISNA, Isan, Nias, Sain, Sani, Sian, Sina, anis, as in, nais, nias, sain

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Old Malay nasi.

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi

1. cooked rice

• nasi guring
• nasi kabun
• nasi lamak

• baras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

From Indonesian nasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.si/

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• Hyphenation: na‧si
• Rhymes: -ɑsi

nasi m (uncountable)

1. Indonesian-style processed rice (mainly about fried rice in general)
   1. nasi goreng: Indonesian fried rice (originally from Javanese cuisine)

• nasibal
• nasi goreng

From Malay nasi, from Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi (first-person possessive nasiku, second-person possessive nasimu, third-person possessive nasinya)

1. nasi, cooked rice
2. (figuratively) livelihood, luck, fortune

• → Dutch: nasi

• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“paddy field”)

• “nasi” 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.

nasi m

1. plural of naso

• ansi, sani

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Compare Malay nasi, and Old Javanese nasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnasiʔ/, [ˈnäː.siʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧si

násî

1. cooked rice

• single

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.siː/, [ˈnäːs̠iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.si/, [ˈnäːs̬i]

nāsī

1. inflection of nāsus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Javanese ꦤꦱꦶ (nasi), Old Javanese nasi (“cooked rice”).

• IPA^(key): [nasi], [nasiʔ]
• Rhymes: -asi, -si, -i

nasi (Jawi spelling ناسي, informal 1st possessive nasiku, 2nd possessive nasimu, 3rd possessive nasinya)

1. cooked rice

• nasi campur
• nasi goreng
• nasi kandar
• nasi lemak

• Indonesian: nasi
• → English: nasi

• sawah (“paddy field”)
• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ناسي nasi”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 138
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ناسي nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 669
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 165

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi

1. cooked rice[1]

• bras (“husked rice (unboiled)”)
• pari (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“irrigated rice field”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɕi/

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• Rhymes: -aɕi
• Syllabification: na‧si

nasi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of nasz

Borrowed from Japanese 梨(なし) (nashi, “pear”).

• IPA^(key): /na.ˈsi/, [na.ˈɕi]

nasi

1. pear (fruit)

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nasi

1. Contraction of na sisi: and us, or with us

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.si]

nasi

1. Alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh