alpukat

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alpukat

isi dari sebuah alpukat yang terpotong

pohon alpukat

Alternative forms

adpokat, advokat, alpokat (nonstandard)
alpoekat (dated spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Dutch East Indies Malay, there are several possibilities:

influenced from an archaic word of Sundanese alpoekat (“advocate”), from Dutch advocaat (“attorney, lawyer”)
from Arabic الْأَفُوكَاتَة (al-ʔafūkāta, “avocado”), a variant of أفوكادو
from corruption of Dutch avocado (“avocado”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /alˈpu.kat̚/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -kat̚
Hyphenation: al‧pu‧kat

Noun

alpukat

avocado
Synonym: avokad
1. the large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree
2. the avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family

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.

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