rendang

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rendang, from Minangkabau randang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɹɛnˈdæŋ/, /ˈɹɛnˌdæŋ/

Noun

rendang (usually uncountable, plural rendangs)

  1. An Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.
    • 2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times:
      Look for gado-gado and lothek, a pair of vegetable salads with crunchy highlights, awash in sauce that’s hand-ground (and spiced to order) for each customer; combro, a deep-fried, chili-spiked croquette of grated cassava; satay plates of skewered beef and chicken, accompanied by peanut sauce and blocks of sticky rice; the long-simmered stew called beef rendang; chicken or beef noodle soup; and cendol, iced coconut milk laden with green rice noodles and tiny cubes of colored jelly, and laced with palm sugar.

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Etymology

From Malay rendang, from Classical Malay رندڠ (rĕndang), from Minangkabau randang, from Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Compare Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ɣənɛ).

Pronunciation

Noun

rêndang (plural rendang-rendang)

  1. rendang (dish made of beef or other ingredients cooked in chilies and coconut milk until dry)

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Malay

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Etymology 1

First attested in the classical Malay literary work Hikayat Amir Hamzah as early as the 1550s, which had been translated into Malay from the Persian original.

From Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Cognate of Minangkabau randang, Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ɣənɛ).

The second sense is a semantic loan from Minangkabau randang, a traditional dish of the Minangkabau people.

Pronunciation

Noun

rendang (Jawi spelling رندڠ, plural rendang-rendang, informal 1st possessive rendangku, 2nd possessive rendangmu, 3rd possessive rendangnya)

  1. frying in nothing more than a little oil or fat; dry-currying
  2. rendang (a rich, spicy meat curry)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Indonesian: rêndang
  • English: rendang

Etymology 2

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Adjective

réndang (Jawi spelling ريندڠ)

  1. shady (of tree)
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