malam

malam

1. height

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

malam

1. night

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

• IPA^(key): /malam/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lam

malam

1. The time of the day between dusk and midnight; evening or night.

A clipping of malami.

• IPA^(key): /máː.làm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [máː.làŋ]

mālàm m (feminine mālàmā, plural mā̀làmai)

1. mister, Mr.

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

• IPA^(key): /malam/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lam

malam

1. night

• malem (informal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.lam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: ma‧lam

Inherited from Malay malam, from Proto-Malayic *maləm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

malam (plural malam-malam, first-person possessive malamku, second-person possessive malammu, third-person possessive malamnya)

1. night

Usage with names of days like Jumat (“Friday”), Senin (“Monday”):

• When placed before the day name means "night before day": malam Jumat "night before Friday"
• When placed after the day name means "night of day": Jumat malam "night of Friday"

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦭꦩ꧀ (malam), probably from Gujarati મલમ (malam, “ointment or paste made of wax”), from Classical Persian مرهم (marham), from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham).

malam (plural malam-malam, first-person possessive malamku, second-person possessive malammu, third-person possessive malamnya)

1. wax, paraffin, particularly for making batik

• “malam” 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.

malam

1. Romanization of ꦩꦭꦩ꧀

malam

1. accusative feminine singular of malus

mālam

1. first-person singular future active indicative of mālō

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”).

• (Baku, Perak) IPA^(key): /malam/
• (Kelantan-Pattani) IPA^(key): /malɛ̃/, /malɛ/
• Rhymes: -alam, -lam, -am

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malam (Jawi spelling مالم, plural malam-malam, informal 1st possessive malamku, 2nd possessive malammu, 3rd possessive malamnya)

1. night

   Antonyms: siang, hari

   Selamat malam ― Goodnight

• Indonesian: malam
• → Ternate: malam

• “malam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*malem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Malay malam.

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.lam]

malam

1. night, evening

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

malam

1. evening, eve