getah

== English == === Noun === getah (uncountable) A mosquito-borne arboviral disease of horses and pigs. == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Malay getah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɡəˈtah] Hyphenation: gê‧tah === Noun === gêtah (plural getah-getah) sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition latex: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber Synonym: lateks (biology) fluid, juice: a clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph) Synonym: cecair (Malaysian) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “getah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Malay == === Etymology === From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡətah/ Rhymes: -ətah, -tah, -ah === Noun === getah (Jawi spelling ݢته, plural getah-getah or getah2) latex, gum: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air. (Riau) sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. Synonyms: air, cecair (uncountable, countable, except Indonesia) rubber: pliable material derived from coagulated sap of introduced Hevea brasiliensis; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene. Synonym: karet Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber. Synonym: lateks ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “ݢته gĕtah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 100 Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “ݢته gĕtah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 562 Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “gĕtah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 364-4 === Further reading === "getah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017