beras

Borrowed from Old Javanese bĕras, bras (“rice”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas. Doublet of baas.

• IPA^(key): /bəras/

beras (Balinese script ᬩᭂᬭᬲ᭄) (alus mider)

1. uncooked rice

   Synonyms: (andap) baas, (alus singgih) galih

• “beras” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Malay beras, from Proto-Malayic *bəras, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /bəˈras/ [bəˈras]

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: be‧ras

bêras (plural beras-beras)

1. milled uncooked rice
2. grain: the harvested seeds

   Synonyms: biji-bijian, butir-butiran

• nasi (“cooked rice”)
  • nasi goreng (“fried rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“paddy field”)

• “beras” 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.

beras

1. romanization of ꦧꦼꦫꦱ꧀

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

beras

1. rice (raw seeds used as food)

bērās

1. accusative feminine plural of bērus

From Proto-Malayic *bəras, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

• IPA^(key): /bəras/
• Rhymes: -əras, -ras, -as

beras (Jawi spelling برس, plural beras-petas)

1. uncooked rice
2. (obsolete) any grain (of plant pollen)

   Synonyms: butir, biji, debu

• Indonesian: beras
• → Nias: beras
• → Palauan: beras

• nasi (“cooked rice”)
• padi (“paddy plant”)
• sawah (“paddy field”)

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “برس bĕras”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 50
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “برس bĕras”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “bĕras”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 125-6
• "beras" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.

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

Borrowed from Malay beras.

beras

1. rice

• beras in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• beras in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• beras in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 16.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

beras

1. rice (raw seeds used as food)