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lebat
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Iban
Pronunciation
Adjective
lebat
- thick
- Buk lebat ― Thick hair
- fruitful (of tree)
- Lada kami lebat endar bebuah taun tu
- Our pepper plants are really fruitful this year.
- heavy (of rain)
- much obtained
- Lebat kayau kami sekali tu, nadai siku bala enda bedengah
- We gained much while headhunting, not one of us did not take a victim.
- routinely (in speaking and writing)
- Leka jaku Laut ‘pentingʼ lebat amat dikena kitai Iban bejaku kemaya haritu.
- The Malay loan word 'penting' is routinely used by us Ibans nowadays.
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Indonesian
Adjective
lebat (comparative lebih lebat, superlative paling lebat)
- heavy with something, weighed down by something (e.g. fruit tree)
- thick, dense (hair)
- heavy (rain, downpour)
Malay
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective
lebat (Jawi spelling لبت, comparative lebih lebat, superlative paling lebat)
Further reading
- "lebat" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
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