belacan

belacan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of belachan (“shrimp-paste condiment”).

• balance

• IPA^(key): [bəˈlat͡ʃan]
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃan, -an, -n
• Hyphenation: bê‧la‧can

From Malay belacan.

bêlacan (plural belacan-belacan)

1. belachan (a shrimp paste condiment)

   Synonym: terasi

From Javanese ꦧ꧀ꦭꦕꦤ꧀ (blacan, “a kind of wild cat”).

bêlacan (plural belacan-belacan)

1. a kind of wild cat

   Synonym: kucing hutan

bêlacan (plural belacan-belacan)

1. synonym of kelicap (“sunbird”)

• “belacan” 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.

Compare Pattani Malay بلاچٍي / บือลาแจ, Urak Lawoi' บาจัด (bacat).

• IPA^(key): /bəlat͡ʃan/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan, -t͡ʃan, -an

belacan (Jawi spelling بلاچن)

1. A Malay condiment made from fermented shrimp paste.

• Baba Malay: belachan
• Indonesian: belacan
• → Burmese: ဗာလချောင် (bala.hkyaung)
• → Chinese: 馬拉盞／马拉盏 (mǎlāzhǎn)
• → Macanese: balichám, balchão, balichã, balachão, balechão, balichan
  • → English: balichao
  • → Portuguese: balichão
• → Ternate: balacang

• “belacan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Equivalent to be- +‎ lācan.

• IPA^(key): /beˈlɑː.kɑn/
• Hyphenation: be‧la‧kan

belācan

1. to flow around, enclose

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “belācan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.