alpukat

• adpokat, advokat, alpokat (nonstandard)
• alpoekat (dated spelling)

Inherited from Dutch East Indies Malay, there are several possibilities:

• influenced from an archaic word of Sundanese alpoekat (“advocate”), from Dutch advocaat (“attorney, lawyer”)
• from Arabic الْأَفُوكَاتَة (al-ʔafūkāta, “avocado”), a variant of أفوكادو
• from corruption of Dutch avocado (“avocado”).

Ultimately from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

• IPA^(key): /alˈpu.kat̚/

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• Rhymes: -kat̚
• Hyphenation: al‧pu‧kat

alpukat

1. avocado

   Synonym: avokad

   1. the large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree
   2. the avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family

• “alpukat” 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.