langsat
English
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/
Noun
langsat (plural langsats)
- A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
- 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times:
- He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”
- 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39:
- He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.
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Brunei Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laŋsat/
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
Noun
langsat
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Noun
langsat m (uncountable)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlaŋsat̚]
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
- Rhymes: -sat, -at, -t
Noun
langsat (first-person possessive langsatku, second-person possessive langsatmu, third-person possessive langsatnya)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); a cultivar of the tree Lansium domesticum
- fruit of this tree
Usage notes
There are 3 terms for L. domesticum cultivars in Indonesian: duku, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and kokosan.
Alternative forms
- langsep
- lansat
Further reading
- “langsat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laŋsat/
- Hyphenation: lang‧sat
Audio (MY) (file) - Rhymes: -at
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Japanese: ランサ (ransa)
- → Khmer: លាំងសាត (lĕəngsaat)
- → Korean: 랑삿 (rangsat)
- → Min Nan: 蘭撒/兰撒 (lân-sat)
- → Russian: лангсат (langsat)
- → Thai: ลางสาด (laang-sàat)
- → Tok Pisin: lansang
Further reading
- “langsat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.