alpukat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay alpoekat, probably influenced from an archaic word of Sundanese alpoekat (“advocate”), from Dutch advocaat.

Possibly from Arabic الْأَفُوكَاتَة (al-ʔafūkāta, “avocado”) or corruption of Dutch avocado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alpukat/

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• Hyphenation: al‧pu‧kat

Noun

alpukat (first-person possessive alpukatku, second-person possessive alpukatmu, third-person possessive alpukatnya)

1. the avocado fruit
2. the avocado, Persea americana, tree

Synonyms

• avokad

Further reading

• “alpukat” 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.