lemak

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

• IPA^(key): /ləmea̯ʔ/

lemak

1. fat, grease
2. soapstone

lemak

1. fatty taste

   Lemak amat kachang guring tu diempa

   These fried ground nuts have a fatty taste when eaten

2. (of speech) pleasant seeming; too good to be true

   Jaku iya lemak

   His speech is too good to be true

lemak

1. suppurate (to form pus)

   Telih iya belemak

   His wound is suppurating.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -maʔ
• Hyphenation: lê‧mak

Inherited from Malay lemak, from Proto-Malayic *ləmək, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

• The sense of tasty, delicious is a semantic loan from Minangkabau lamak, from the same Proto-Malayic term.

lêmak

1. fat
   1. a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue
   2. the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts
   3. a lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids
2. grease
   1. animal fat in a melted or soft state
   2. (by extension) any oily or fatty matter

lêmak (dialectal)

1. tasty, delicious

   Synonyms: enak, lezat, sedap

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lêmak

1. hoven's carp, mad barb, sultan fish (Leptobarbus hoevenii)

   Synonym: jelawat

• “lemak” 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.

From Proto-Malayic , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləmək (“fertile, of soil”).

• IPA^(key): /ləmaʔ/,
• Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

lemak (Jawi spelling لمق, plural lemak-lemak, informal 1st possessive lemakku, 2nd possessive lemakmu, 3rd possessive lemaknya)

1. fat, grease

• Indonesian: lemak

• “lemak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.