nasi

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑː.si/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsi

nasi (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Cooked rice.

• nasi briyani
• nasi goreng
• nasi ambeng

Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيء (nasīʔ, literally “postponement”).

• nasi'

• IPA^(key): /nəˈsiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

nasi (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪˌsaɪ/

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nasi

1. plural of nasus

• anis, Sani, nias, ASIN, ANSI, Sina, nais, Sian, AINs, Anis, ISNA, Sain, Nias, sian, sain, as in, ains, Isan, NIAS

From Proto-Malayic *nasi(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi.

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi

1. cooked rice

• nasi guring
• nasi kabun
• nasi lemak

• baras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

From Indonesian nasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.si/

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• Hyphenation: na‧si
• Rhymes: -ɑsi

nasi m (uncountable)

1. Indonesian-style processed rice (mainly about fried rice in general)
   1. nasi goreng: Indonesian fried rice (originally from Javanese cuisine)

• nasibal
• nasi goreng

Inherited from Malay nasi, from Proto-Malayic *nasi(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnasi/ [ˈna.si]

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• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: na‧si

nasi (uncountable)

1. nasi, cooked rice
2. (figuratively, uncommon) livelihood, luck, fortune

• → Dutch: nasi

• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“paddy field”)

• “nasi” 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.

nasi m

1. plural of naso

• ansi, sani

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi. Compare Malay nasi, and Old Javanese nasi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnasiʔ/ [ˈnäː.siʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧si

násî

1. cooked rice

• single

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.siː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.s̬i]

nāsī

1. inflection of nāsus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *nasi(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asi.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈnasik/ [ˈna.siʔ]
  • Rhymes: -asik, -ik

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈnasi/ [ˈna.si]
  • Rhymes: -asi, -i
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi (Jawi spelling ناسي, plural nasi-nasi)

1. (uncountable) Rice cooked by either steaming or boiling; cooked rice.
2. (countable) A white-coloured pimple; a whitehead.

• > Indonesian: nasi (inherited)
  • → Dutch: nasi
• → English: nasi

• sawah (“paddy field”)
• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice; paddy”)

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ناسي nasi”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 138
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ناسي nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 669
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nasi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 165

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nasi.

• IPA^(key): /nasi/
• Hyphenation: na‧si

nasi

1. cooked rice^[1]

• bras (“husked rice (unboiled)”)
• pari (“unmilled rice”)
• sawah (“irrigated rice field”)

Compare Malay nasi (“cooked rice”).

nasi

1. life

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

See nasz.

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• Rhymes: -aɕi
• Syllabification: na‧si

nasi m pers pl

1. (Kielce) synonym of rodzice

   Nasych nié ma doma, bo pośli do robocizny. ― My parents aren't home because they went to work.

nasi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of nasz

• Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “nasi”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 249

Borrowed from Japanese 梨(なし) (nashi, “pear”).

• IPA^(key): /na.ˈsi/, [na.ˈɕi]

nasi

1. pear (fruit)

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nasi

1. contraction of na sisi: and us, or with us

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.si]

nasi

1. alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)

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