nasi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nasi"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsi

Noun

nasi (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Cooked rice.

Derived terms

• nasi briyani
• nasi goreng
• nasi ambeng

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• nasi'

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəˈsiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

nasi (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nasi

1. plural of nasus

Derived terms

• agger nasi
• columella nasi
• depressor septi nasi
• levator labii superioris alaeque nasi

 

Anagrams

• anis, Sani, nias, ASIN, ANSI, Sina, nais, Sian, AINs, Anis, ISNA, Sain, Nias, sian, sain, as in, ains, Isan, NIAS

Brunei Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nasi

1. cooked rice

Derived terms

• nasi guring
• nasi kabun
• nasi lamak

See also

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Indonesian nasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.si/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: na‧si
• Rhymes: -ɑsi

Noun

nasi m (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• nasibal
• nasi goreng

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnasi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi

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

Derived terms

• nasi aking
• nasi anjing
• nasi ayam hainan
• nasi bakar
• nasi beriani
• nasi campur
• nasi detus
• nasi gandul
• nasi gila
• nasi golong
• nasi goreng
• nasi goreng mawut
• nasi gurih
• nasi jaha
• nasi jamblang
• nasi jinggo
• nasi kebuli
• nasi kepal
• nasi kerak
• nasi kucing
• nasi kuning
• nasi kunyit
• nasi lemak
• nasi lemang
• nasi lengat
• nasi lengko
• nasi liwet
• nasi mangkuk
• nasi megana
• nasi padang
• nasi pulut
• nasi punar
• nasi putih
• nasi rames
• nasi rawon
• nasi samin
• nasi sega
• nasi tim
• nasi timbel
• nasi tumpeng
• nasi tungkus
• nasi uduk
• nasi ulam

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: nasi

See also

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

Further reading

• “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.

Italian

Noun

nasi m

1. plural of naso

Anagrams

• ansi, sani

Kapampangan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

násî

1. cooked rice

See also

• single

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nāsī

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

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *in-asi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi₃.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [na.siʔ], [na.si]
• Rhymes: -iʔ, -i
• Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

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

1. (uncountable) Rice cooked by either steaming or boiling; cooked rice.
2. (countable) A white-coloured pimple; a whitehead.

Affixations

• bernasi (“to have rice”)

 

Compounds

• mencari nasi
• nasi adap-adap
• nasi adap-adapan
• nasi angkatan
• nasi ayam
• nasi berdetus
• nasi beriani
• nasi besar
• nasi bungkus
• nasi campur
• nasi dagang
• nasi damai
• nasi damai-damai
• nasi dandang
• nasi datang
• nasi goreng
• nasi habi
• nasi hangit
• nasi himpit
• nasi kabuli
• nasi kangkang
• nasi kapit
• nasi kawah
• nasi kerabu
• nasi ketupat
• nasi kukus
• nasi kuning
• nasi kunyit
• nasi lecek
• nasi lemak
• nasi lembik
• nasi lengat
• nasi lepat
• nasi mentah
• nasi minyak
• nasi ransum
• nasi rawan
• nasi sorok
• nasi suap-suap
• nasi tambah
• nasi tangas
• nasi tomato
• nasi tumpang
• nasi ulam
• nasi wajar

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: nasi
  • → Dutch: nasi
• → English: nasi

See also

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

References

• 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

Further reading

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nasi

1. cooked rice

See also

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

Paiwan

Noun

nasi

1. life

References

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɕi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɕi
• Syllabification: na‧si

Pronoun

nasi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of nasz

Sakizaya

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ˈsi/, [na.ˈɕi]

Noun

nasi

1. pear (fruit)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Prepositional phrase

nasi

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

See also

Object-inflected forms of na

		Singular	Plural
1st person		nami	nasi
2nd person		nawe	nanyi
3rd person	m-wa(I/II)	naye	nao
	m-mi(III/IV)	nao	nayo
	ji-ma(V/VI)	nalo	nayo
	ki-vi(VII/VIII)	nacho	navyo
	n(IX/X)	nayo	nazo
	u(XI)	nao	see n(X) or ma(VI)
	ku(XV/XVII)	nako
	pa(XVI)	napo
	mu(XVIII)	namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.si]

Noun

nasi

1. Alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)

References

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