ketan

See also: kĕtan, kětàn, kết án, and kətan

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈtan/, [kəˈt̪an]
• Hyphenation: kê‧tan
• Rhymes: -tan, -an, -n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦠꦤ꧀ (ketan, “glutinous rice”), from Old Javanese kĕtan, lakĕtan (“glutinous rice”, literally “sticky thing”).

Noun

kêtan (plural ketan-ketan)

1. (cooking) glutinous rice

   Synonym: pulut

Derived terms

• ketan hitam
• ketan mangga
• ketan srikaya
• ketan tumis
• ketan urap

• beras ketan

Etymology 2

Noun

ketan

1. (education) syllabic abbreviation of ketua angkatan (“head of class”)

Further reading

• “ketan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• ketan on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

Javanese

Romanization

ketan

1. romanization of ꦏꦼꦠꦤ꧀