lapah

From Malay lapah, from Classical Malay لاڤه (lapah), from Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈla.pah]
• Hyphenation: la‧pah

lapah

1. to skin; to flay; to fleece
2. to chop into pieces (of slaughtered cattle)
3. to tear, to pull apart, to rip with violence

• “lapah” 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.

Attested in the Hikayat Iskandar Dzulkarnain, 1713 AD, as Classical Malay لاڤه (lapah).

From Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

• IPA^(key): /la.pah/, [ˈlä.päh]
• Rhymes: -pah, -ah

lapah (Jawi spelling لاڤه)

1. to flay; to skin; to strip; to tear off the skin

Especially used of skinning animals for the market or kitchen.

• Indonesian: lapah

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

From Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

lapah

1. to swallow; to gulp down; to devour (as animals do to their prey)