langsat

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langsats

Etymology

From Malay langsat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/

Noun

langsat (plural langsats)

  1. 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

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian langsat. From Malay langsat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

langsat m (uncountable)

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay langsat.

Pronunciation

Noun

langsat

  1. langsat; a cultivar of the tree Lansium domesticum
  2. fruit of this tree

Usage notes

There are 3 terms for L. domesticum cultivars in Indonesian: duku, langsat and kokosan.

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Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

langsat (Jawi spelling لڠست, plural langsat-langsat, informal 1st possessive langsatku, 2nd possessive langsatmu, 3rd possessive langsatnya)

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

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