lelang

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• lelung

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama)

Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām)bor.

Portuguese leilãobor.

Malay lelong

Indonesian lelang

Inherited from Malay lelong, borrowed from Portuguese leilão, borrowed from Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām), from أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛlaŋ/ [ˈlɛ.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɛlaŋ
• Syllabification: le‧lang

Noun

lèlang (plural lelang-lelang)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. tender

Derived terms

• lelangan
• melelang
• melelangkan
• memperlelangkan
• pelelang
• pelelangan
• perlelangan
• terlelang

Further reading

• “lelang”, 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