langsat

From Malay langsat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/

langsat (plural langsats)

1. The tree Lansium domesticum.

   Synonym: duku

2. A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.

   Synonym: duku

   • 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”

   • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39:

     He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.

• alangst

• IPA^(key): /laŋsat/
• Hyphenation: lang‧sat

langsat

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

Borrowed from Indonesian langsat. From Malay langsat.

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langsat m (uncountable)

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

From Malay langsat.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋsat/ [ˈlaŋ.sat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aŋsat
• Syllabification: lang‧sat

langsat (plural langsat-langsat)

1. langsat; a cultivar of the tree Lansium domesticum
2. fruit of this tree

There are 3 terms for L. domesticum cultivars in Indonesian: duku, langsat and kokosan.

• langsep
• lansat

• “langsat” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋsat/ [ˈlaŋ.sat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: lang‧sat

• Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -at

langsat (Jawi spelling لڠست, plural langsat-langsat)

1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)

• Indonesian: langsat
• → Dutch: langsat
• → English: langsat
• → Japanese: ランサ (ransa)
• → Khmer: លាំងសាត (lĕəngsaat)
• → Korean: 랑삿 (rangsat)
• → Min Nan: 蘭撒／兰撒 (lân-sat)
• → Russian: лангсат (langsat)
• → Thai: ลางสาด (laang-sàat)
• → Tok Pisin: lansang

• “langsat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.