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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay getah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.
Pronunciation
Noun
gêtah (first-person possessive getahku, second-person possessive getahmu, third-person possessive getahnya)
- sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- latex: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
- Synonym: lateks
- (biology) fluid, juice: a clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
- Synonym: jus (Standard Malay)
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Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
getah (Jawi spelling ݢته, plural getah-getah, informal 1st possessive getahku, 2nd possessive getahmu, 3rd possessive getahnya)
- latex; rubber
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