lemas
See also: Lemas
Esperanto
Verb
lemas
- present of lemi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay lemas (“suffocate; drowning”).
- Semantic loan from Javanese ꦊꦩꦼꦱ꧀ (lemes, “pliant, supple; weak, soft; refined, smooth; yielding”), Old Javanese lĕmĕs (“pliancy, suppleness, slenderness; softness, silkiness”).
- Semantic loan from Sundanese lemes (“refined, smooth”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ləˈmas/ [ləˈmas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: le‧mas
Adjective
lêmas (comparative lebih lemas, superlative paling lemas)
- weary (exhausted to the point of weakness, from exertion)
- pliant (easy to bend, not rigid)
- flexible, supple
- Synonym: lentur
- weak, soft
- Synonym: lemah
- polite, refined, courteous
- Synonym: halus
- gentle
- Synonym: lemah lembut
- (dialect) suffocating, stifling
- (dialect) asphyxiated
- (pathology) adynamia: lack or loss of strength, usually due to a disease
- Synonym: adinamia
Derived terms
- dilemaskan
- melemaskan
Further reading
- “lemas” 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.
Malay
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lemes. Compare Cebuano lumos.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -as
Adjective
lemas (Jawi spelling لمس)
Noun
lemas (Jawi spelling لمس, plural lemas-lemas)
Derived terms
- dilemaskan (to let someone be drowned or suffocated)
- melemaskan (to drown or suffocate someone)
- pelemas (someone who died of either drowning or suffocation; a person who kills victims by means of either drowning or suffocation)
- perlemasan (act of either drowning or suffocating)
- terlemas (drowned; suffocated)
Descendants
- > Indonesian: lemas (inherited)
Further reading
- “lemas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Portuguese
Noun
lemas
- plural of lema
Spanish
Noun
lemas m pl
- plural of lema