agar-agar

From Malay agar-agar (“jelly”).

agar-agar (uncountable)

1. Agar.
   • 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     That done, you heat soya milk with oil and several flakes of agar-agar – a tasteless vegan alternative to gelatine – which dissolve into the liquid over 10 minutes, except they don’t, not really.

2. (Singapore, Malaysia) A jelly dessert made from agar.

From Malay agak-agak. Here, the letter k represents a glottal stop, but it is elided by many speakers in Singapore.

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɡɑ ˌɑɡɑ/

agar-agar (invariable)

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“to estimate”).
   • 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 17, page 99:

     So I just got to agar-agar lor.

agar-agar (not comparable)

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative spelling of agak-agak (“involving guesswork”).

• agar

From Malay agar-agar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑɡɑrˌɑɡɑr/, [ˈɑ̝ɡɑ̝rˌɑ̝ɡɑ̝r]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡɑr
• Syllabification^(key): a‧gar‧a‧gar
• Hyphenation^(key): agar‧agar

agar-agar

1. agar (material)

• “agar-agar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Malay agar-agar (“jelly”), from Classical Malay اڬر٢ (agar-agar, “jelly”), اڬر٢ (agar2).

• IPA^(key): /aɡar aɡar/
• Rhymes: -aɡar, -ɡar, -ar

agar-agar

1. agar (a material obtained from a marine alga), agar-agar
2. agar (chemistry)

• agar (sciences)

• “agar-agar” 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.

From Malay agar-agar.

agar-agar (plurale tantum)

1. jelly; jam^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aɡa(r) aɡa(r)/
• Rhymes: -aɡa(r), -ɡa(r), -a(r)

agar-agar

1. agar (a material obtained from a marine alga),
2. agar (chemistry)

• Indonesian: agar-agar
• Kristang: agar-agar
• → English: agar-agar
• → Finnish: agar-agar
• → Portuguese: agar-agar
• → Spanish: agar-agar
• → Tausug: agal-agal

Borrowed from Malay agar-agar. First attested in 1890.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡar ˈa.ɡar/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: a‧gar-a‧gar

agar-agar m inan (indeclinable)

1. agar, agar-agar (gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis, and as a food additive)

   Synonym: agar

2. agar, agar-agar (type of red algae)

   Synonym: agar

or

Indeclinable.

• agar-agar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: a‧gar‧-a‧gar

agar-agar m (plural agar-agares)

1. agar (a material obtained from a marine alga)

Borrowed from French agar-agar or German Agar-Agar.

agar-agar n (uncountable)

1. agar

• agar, agaragar

Borrowed from Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly.

• IPA^(key): /aˌɡaɾ aˈɡaɾ/ [aˌɣ̞aɾ aˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Syllabification: a‧gar-a‧gar

agar-agar m (plural agar-agares)

1. agar

• “agar-agar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish agar-agar, from English agar-agar, from Malay agar-agar.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌʔaɡaɾ ˈʔaɡaɾ/ [ˌʔaː.ɣɐɾ ˈʔaː.ɣɐɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɡaɾ
• Syllabification: a‧gar-a‧gar

agar-agar (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄᜇ᜔ᜀᜄᜇ᜔)

1. agar

• “agar-agar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018