rendang

Borrowed from Malay rendang, from Minangkabau randang.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛnˈdæŋ/, /ˈɹɛnˌdæŋ/

rendang (usually uncountable, plural rendangs)

1. An Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.
   • 2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Look for gado-gado and lothek, a pair of vegetable salads with crunchy highlights, awash in sauce that’s hand-ground (and spiced to order) for each customer; combro, a deep-fried, chili-spiked croquette of grated cassava; satay plates of skewered beef and chicken, accompanied by peanut sauce and blocks of sticky rice; the long-simmered stew called beef rendang; chicken or beef noodle soup; and cendol, iced coconut milk laden with green rice noodles and tiny cubes of colored jelly, and laced with palm sugar.

From Malay rendang, from Classical Malay رندڠ (rĕndang), from Minangkabau randang, from Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Compare Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ɣənɛ).

• IPA^(key): [rənˈdaŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ, -ŋ
• Hyphenation: rên‧dang

rêndang (plural rendang-rendang)

1. rendang (dish made of beef or other ingredients cooked in chilies and coconut milk until dry)

• randang

• “rendang” 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 Proto-Malayic *rəndaŋ. Cognate of Minangkabau randang, Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ṛənᵈɛ). First attested in the classical Malay literary work Hikayat Amir Hamzah as early as the 1550s, which had been translated into Malay from the Persian original.

The second sense is a semantic loan from Minangkabau randang.

• IPA^(key): [rənˈdaŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ

rendang (Jawi spelling رندڠ, plural rendang-rendang)

1. (obsolete) frying in nothing more than a little oil or fat;^[1] dry-currying

   Synonym: goreng

2. (obsolete) to fricassee^[1]
3. (obsolete) to sauté^[1]

   Synonym: tumis

4. rendang, a rich, spicy meat curry of Minangkabau origin made by slowly cooking in coconut milk until dry

• panggang
• goreng
• selar

• Indonesian: rêndang
• → English: rendang

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “رندڠ rĕndang”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 11
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “رندڠ rĕndang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, pages 156-7
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “rĕndang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 330

Compare with rindang. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛn.daŋ]
• Rhymes: -daŋ, -aŋ

réndang (Jawi spelling ريندڠ)

1. shady (of tree)

   Synonyms: rampak, teduh

• Indonesian: rindang

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “رندڠ rendang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 343
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “rendang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 330

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