malam
- height
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm.
malam
- night
Inherited fromProto-Malayic*maləm, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm.
- IPA(key): /malam/
- Hyphenation:ma‧lam
malam
- The time of the day betweendusk andmidnight;evening ornight.
A clipping ofmalami.
mālàm m (femininemālàmā,pluralmā̀làmai)
- mister,Mr.
Inherited fromProto-Malayic*maləm, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm.
- IPA(key): /malam/
- Hyphenation:ma‧lam
malam
- night
- IPA(key): /ˈma.lam/
- Rhymes:-am
- Hyphenation:ma‧lam
Inherited fromMalaymalam, fromProto-Malayic*maləm, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm.
malam (pluralmalam-malam)
- night
Usage with names of days likeJumat(“Friday”),Senin(“Monday”):
- When placed before the day name means "night beforeday":malam Jumat "night before Friday"
- When placed after the day name means "night ofday":Jumatmalam "night of Friday"
Borrowed fromJavaneseꦩꦭꦩ꧀(malam), probably fromGujaratiમલમ(malam,“ointment or paste made of wax”), fromClassical Persianمرهم(marham), fromArabicمَرْهَم(marham).
malam (pluralmalam-malam)
- wax,paraffin, particularly for makingbatik
- beeswax: a wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods
- Synonym:lilin lebah
malam
- Romanization ofꦩꦭꦩ꧀
malam
- accusativefemininesingular ofmalus
mālam
- first-personsingularfutureactiveindicative ofmālō
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm(“night, darkness”).
malam (Jawi spellingمالم,pluralmalam-malam)
- night
- Antonyms:siang,hari
- Selamatmalam ―Goodnight
- “malam” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*malem”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
FromMalaymalam.
malam
- night,evening
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm.
malam
- evening,eve
