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salak

salak

See also: sálak and sāļāk

English

Wikispecies

Noun

salak (plural salaks)

  1. The pear-shaped fruit of a palm native to Indonesia.
  2. The palm (Salacca zalacca) that bears this fruit - also called salak palm.

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Malay

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /salaʔ/
  • Rhymes: -alaʔ, -laʔ, -aʔ

Etymology 1

Noun

salak (Jawi spelling سالق)

  1. salak (fruit)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

salak (Jawi spelling سالق, used in the form menyalak)

  1. to bark (to make a loud noise (dogs))
Synonyms

Turkish

Etymology

Recorded during Ottoman Turkish صلاق (salak, 1. **** exposer, 2. ****, 3. a kind of weapon with balls), derived from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (sal-, to release, free, throw). See Turkish salmak. Nişanyan thinks the word went through semantic extension perhaps under now Turkish slang saloz (stupid) which is borrowing from Greek σαλός (salós, fool).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɑlɑk]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lak

Adjective

salak (comparative daha salak, superlative en salak)

  1. foolish, stupidish

Declension

Noun

salak (definite accusative salağı, plural salaklar)

  1. someone fool, stupid, idiot.

Declension

Related terms

Derived terms

  • salakça
  • salaklık
  • salaklaşmak

See also

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-06-09), salak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük