malam
Acehnese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]malam
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.
Noun
[edit]malam
References
[edit]- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Brunei Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]malam
Hausa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A clipping of malami.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mālàm m (feminine mālàmā, plural mā̀làmai)
Iban
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]malam
Derived terms
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- malem (informal)
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Malay malam, from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.
Noun
[edit]malam (plural malam-malam)
Usage notes
[edit]Usage with names of days like Jumat (“Friday”), Senin (“Monday”):
- When placed before the day name means "night before day": malam Jumat "night before Friday"
- When placed after the day name means "night of day": Jumat malam "night of Friday"
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦭꦩ꧀ (malam), probably from Gujarati મલમ (malam, “ointment or paste made of wax”), from Classical Persian مرهم (marham), from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham).
Noun
[edit]malam (plural malam-malam)
- wax, paraffin, particularly for making batik
- beeswax: a wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
- Synonym: lilin lebah
Further reading
[edit]- “malam” 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.
Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]malam
- Romanization of ꦩꦭꦩ꧀
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]malam
Verb
[edit]mālam
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Baku, Perak) IPA(key): /malam/
- (Kelantan-Pattani) IPA(key): /malɛ̃/, /malɛ/
- Rhymes: -alam, -lam, -am
Audio (Malaysia): (file)
Noun
[edit]malam (Jawi spelling مالم, plural malam-malam, informal 1st possessive malamku, 2nd possessive malammu, 3rd possessive malamnya)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “malam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*malem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Ternate
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]malam
References
[edit]- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Yakan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.
Noun
[edit]malam
- Acehnese lemmas
- Acehnese nouns
- Acehnese palindromes
- Acehnese terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- ace:Times of day
- Brunei Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayic
- Brunei Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Brunei Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Brunei Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Brunei Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Brunei Malay lemmas
- Brunei Malay nouns
- Brunei Malay palindromes
- kxd:Times of day
- Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa palindromes
- Hausa masculine nouns
- ha:Titles
- Iban terms inherited from Proto-Malayic
- Iban terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Iban terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Iban terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Iban terms with IPA pronunciation
- Iban lemmas
- Iban nouns
- Iban palindromes
- iba:Times of day
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/am
- Rhymes:Indonesian/am/2 syllables
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian terms inherited from Proto-Malayic
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Indonesian terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian palindromes
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Gujarati
- Indonesian terms derived from Classical Persian
- Indonesian terms derived from Arabic
- Indonesian terms derived from the Arabic root ر ه م
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle Persian
- Indonesian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- id:Times of day
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Javanese palindromes
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin adjective forms
- Latin palindromes
- Latin verb forms
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayic
- Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Malay/alam
- Rhymes:Malay/lam
- Rhymes:Malay/am
- Malay terms with audio pronunciation
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Malay palindromes
- Malay terms with usage examples
- ms:Times of day
- Ternate terms derived from Malay
- Ternate terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ternate lemmas
- Ternate nouns
- Ternate palindromes
- tft:Times of day
- Yakan terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Yakan lemmas
- Yakan nouns
- Yakan palindromes
- yka:Times of day