rambutan

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɹamˈbjʉːtən]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɹæmˈbuːtən]

rambutan (plural rambutans)

1. A tree, Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.

• antumbra

rambut +‎ -an (compare Malay rambutan)

• IPA^(key): /ram.bu.tan/
• (Kedayan) IPA^(key): /am.bu.tan/

rambutan

1. rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum

• maritam

From Malay rambutan.

• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
• IPA^(key): /ɾamˈbutan/, [ɾ̪ʌmˈbu.t̪ʌn̪]

rambutan

1. the rambutan tree (Nephelium lappaceum)
2. the fruit of this tree

From Malay rambutan or rambut +‎ -an.

rambutan (first-person possessive rambutanku, second-person possessive rambutanmu, third-person possessive rambutannya)

1. rambutan (fruit)

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

rambutan m

1. rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): [räm.bo.tän], [räm.bu.tän]
• Rhymes: -otan, -utan, -tan, -an

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rambutan (Jawi spelling رمبوتن or رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan, informal 1st possessive rambutanku, 2nd possessive rambutanmu, 3rd possessive rambutannya)

1. rambutan (fruit)

• lotong, pulasan, redan

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

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

rambután

1. rambutan (fruit)

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ɾambuˈtan/, [ɾɐm.bʊˈtan]
• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan

rambután (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

1. rambutan (tree and fruit)

   Synonym: (obsolete) alpay

• “rambutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018