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Makasar
Etymology
Cognate with Sasak lekoq (“betel leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlekoʔ/,
- Hyphenation: le‧koʼ
Noun
lekoʼ (Lontara spelling ᨒᨙᨀᨚ)
- leaf (in general)
- Synonym: raung (Turatea, Bantaeng, poetry)
- (specifically) betel leaf
- anything that resembles a leaf (e.g., flat surfaces of a door or window; disc of the sun and moon)
Usage notes
- The Makassar Standard dialect is the only one that interprets it as a leaf in general and a betel leaf in particular. Other dialects only interpret it as a betel leaf.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Cense, A. A. (1979) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN