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From the genus name.

lepas (plural lepases)

1. (archaic) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
   • 1801, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, A Catalogue of the Whole Contents of the Celebrated Museum formed by M. De Calonne, page 58:

     60. The tiger tower, a mitres, a lithophagus, a purple rayed solen, a lepas, and 9 other shells.

   • 1835, W. B. Clarke, “Remarks on some Barnacles of the Species Lepas antifera found floating off St. Adhelm's Head, on the Coast of Dorset”, in The Magazine of natural history, volume 8, page 116:

     The peduncles of the lepases are flexible; and Dr. Weatherill has ascribed to the species which he has noticed in V. 339–342., the power of availing itself of this flexibility in "extending, shrinking, and writhing itself at pleasure."

   • 1847, Joseph Beete Jukes, Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly, page 141:

     It was probably either a large mytilus, a meleagrina, or a pinna, and was certainly not a lepas.

• “lepas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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lepas

1. inessive singular of lepp

From Malay lepas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ləˈpas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: le‧pas

lêpas (comparative lebih lepas, superlative paling lepas)

1. untethered

   Antonym: tertambat

2. unleashed, unbound, unchained

   Antonym: terikat

3. escaped

   Synonym: kabur

4. released (from punishment e.g. prison)

   Synonym: bebas

5. fall out

   Synonym: copot

6. free

   Synonym: bebas

7. no longer within living memory

   Antonym: hilang

8. (now dated) after

   Synonyms: bakda, sehabis, selepas, sesudah

• “lepas” 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-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas.

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay (lapas), in inflected form marlapas (current spelling berlepas).

• IPA^(key): /ləpas/
• Rhymes: -as
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key):

lepas (Jawi spelling لڤس)

1. after, past, ago.

   Synonyms: selepas, sehabis, sesudah, setelah

2. free or escaped.

   Synonym: bebas

3. unbound, unchained; released.

   Antonyms: terikat, tertambat

4. (informal) to give birth.
5. (informal, slang) be safe.

lepas (Jawi spelling لڤس)

1. to unbound
2. to release

• Indonesian: lepas

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