nasi

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English

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi (uncountable)

  1. (cooking) Cooked rice.
Hyponyms

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيء (nasīʔ, literally “postponement”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi (uncountable)

  1. (Islam) The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi

  1. plural of nasus
Derived terms

Anagrams

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Old Malay nasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nasi/
  • Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi

  1. cooked rice

Derived terms

See also

  • baras (“uncooked rice”)
  • padi (“unmilled rice”)

Dutch

Etymology

From Indonesian nasi.

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi m (uncountable)

  1. Indonesian-style processed rice (mainly about fried rice in general)
    1. nasi goreng: Indonesian fried rice (originally from Javanese cuisine)

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay nasi, from Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnasi/
  • Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi (first-person possessive nasiku, second-person possessive nasimu, third-person possessive nasinya)

  1. nasi, cooked rice
  2. (figuratively) livelihood, luck, fortune

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Dutch: nasi

See also

  • beras (“uncooked rice”)
  • padi (“unmilled rice”)
  • sawah (“paddy field”)

Further reading

Italian

Noun

nasi m

  1. plural of naso

Anagrams

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Compare Malay nasi, and Old Javanese nasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnasiʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

násî

  1. cooked rice

See also

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

nāsī

  1. inflection of nāsus:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/vocative plural

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nasi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi. Cognate of Javanese ꦤꦱꦶ (nasi), Old Javanese nasi (“cooked rice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi (Jawi spelling ناسي, informal 1st possessive nasiku, 2nd possessive nasimu, 3rd possessive nasinya)

  1. cooked rice

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

  • sawah (“paddy field”)
  • beras (“uncooked rice”)
  • padi (“unmilled rice”)

References

  • Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ناسي nasi”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 138
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ناسي nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 669
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 165

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nasi/
  • Hyphenation: na‧si

Noun

nasi

  1. cooked rice

See also

  • bras (“husked rice (unboiled)”)
  • pari (“unmilled rice”)
  • sawah (“irrigated rice field”)

References

  1. ^ cf. "nasi" in Zoetmulder, P.J. (1982). Old Javanese-English Dictionary

Polish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nasi

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of nasz

Sakizaya

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 梨(なし) (nashi, “pear”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi

  1. pear (fruit)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Prepositional phrase

nasi

  1. Contraction of na sisi: and us, or with us

See also

Object-inflected forms of na
Singular Plural
1st person nami nasi
2nd person nawe nanyi
3rd person m-wa(I/II) naye nao
m-mi(III/IV) nao nayo
ji-ma(V/VI) nalo nayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) nacho navyo
n(IX/X) nayo nazo
u(XI) nao see n(X) or ma(VI)
ku(XV/XVII) nako
pa(XVI) napo
mu(XVIII) namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

nasi

  1. Alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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