lemas

See also: Lemas

Esperanto

Verb

lemas

1. 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)

1. weary (exhausted to the point of weakness, from exertion)
2. pliant (easy to bend, not rigid)
3. flexible, supple

   Synonym: lentur

4. weak, soft

   Synonym: lemah

5. polite, refined, courteous

   Synonym: halus

6. gentle

   Synonym: lemah lembut

7. (dialect) suffocating, stifling
8. (dialect) asphyxiated
10. (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 [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

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lemes. Compare Cebuano lumos.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Adjective

lemas (Jawi spelling لمس, comparative lebih lemas, superlative paling lemas)

1. weary (exhausted to the point of weakness, from exertion)
2. pliant (easy to bend, not rigid)

Noun

lemas (Jawi spelling لمس, plural lemas-lemas or lemas²)

1. drowning
2. suffocation

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 (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Portuguese

Noun

lemas

1. plural of lema

Spanish

Noun

lemas m pl

1. plural of lema