serap

Inherited from Malay serap, from Classical Malay سرڤ (serap), from Proto-Malayic *sərəp, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səʀəp (“to penetrate”).

• sêrêp (colloquial, chiefly Java)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈrap/
• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: se‧rap

sêrap (active menyerap, passive diserap)

1. to absorb (in general senses)
2. (physics, chemistry) to absorb (to take in energy and convert it)
3. to absorb (to assimilate mentally)
   • 2020, Azri Yusra, DILEMA BANGKU KULIAH (Sebuah Bacaan untuk Menapaki Kehidupan Kampus)‎, Spasi Media, page 64:

     Satu minggu menjelang minggu tenang, pastikan bahwa kita menyerap dan memahami bacaan mata kuliah

     A week before quiet week, make sure that we absorb and understand the course readings

4. to absorb (to spent the amount that was budgeted)
   • 2020, Komnas HAM, Marjinalisasi Hak Politik Penyandang Disabilitas‎, page 135:

     Jumlah ini lebih kecil dari biaya pengadaan tinta dan surat suara yang masing-masing menyerap anggaran sebesar Rp. 4.131.123.000 atau 3.84 % dan Rp. 2.516.354.185 atau 2.34 % dari total anggaran penyelenggaraan Pilkada di Sulsel

     This amount is smaller than the cost of procuring ink and ballots, which each absorbed the budget of Rp. 4,131,123,000 or 3.84% and Rp. 2,516,354,185 or 2.34% of the total budget for organizing the Pilkada in South Sulawesi.

5. (linguistics) to borrow (to adopt a word from another language)

   Synonym: pinjam

6. to assimilate (of culture, etc.)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈserap/
• Rhymes: -erap
• Syllabification: se‧rap

sérap (plural serap-serap)

1. Alternative form of serep

• “serap” 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.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*serep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayic *sərəp, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səʀəp (“to penetrate”). Cognate with Manggarai cerep.

• IPA^(key): /sərap/
• Rhymes: -ap

serap (Jawi spelling سرڤ)

1. to absorb (to include so that it no longer has separate existence)

• Indonesian: serap

• “serap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*serep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Ottoman Turkish سراب (serab), itself from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb, “mirage”).

serap (definite accusative serabı, plural seraplar)

1. mirage, an optical phenomenon giving the illusion of a body of water

• serabistan

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4151