meranti

From Malay meranti.

meranti (uncountable)

1. The timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea.
   • 2007 August 19, Jay Romano, “Decks: Real Wood or a Look-Alike?”, in New York Times‎:

     Homeowners can also use cedar, at $1.50 to $3 or more per foot, or exotic hardwoods like meranti from Southeast Asia or ipê from Brazil at about $3 a foot.

• yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana)

• meranti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Shorea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Shorea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Inter-Am., Reitman, Tremain, antimer, antmire, artemin, matrine, minaret, raiment, trimean

From Malay meranti, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haməti, from Proto-Austronesian *SaməCi (“Solanum nigrum”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mê‧ran‧ti

mêranti (first-person possessive merantiku, second-person possessive merantimu, third-person possessive merantinya)

1. meranti (the timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea)

• “meranti” 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 *haməti, from Proto-Austronesian *SaməCi (“Solanum nigrum”).

• IPA^(key): /məranti/
• Rhymes: -anti, -nti, -ti

meranti (Jawi spelling مرنتي, plural meranti-meranti, informal 1st possessive merantiku, 2nd possessive merantimu, 3rd possessive merantinya)

1. meranti (the timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea)

• Indonesian: meranti
• → English: meranti
• → Portuguese: meranti

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

From Malay meranti.

meranti m (uncountable)

1. meranti (the timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea)