bantai

From Proto-Chamic *bantal, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bandal. Cognate with Malay bantal.

bantai

1. pillow.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbantai̯/ [ˈban̪.t̪ai̯]
• Rhymes: -antai̯
• Syllabification: ban‧tai

Inherited from Malay bantai.

bantai (plural bantai-bantai)

1. meat; slaughtered animal.

bantai (active membantai, reflexive passive terbantai, ordinary passive dibantai, imperative bantai, emphatic-jussive bantailah)

1. to cut up, to butcher, to slaughter
2. to massacre, to kill off, to slaughter.
3. to destroy, to ruin
4. to exterminate, to wipe out
5. to finish up
6. (figurative) to kill cruelly with more than one victim

Borrowed from Ngaju [Term?].

bantai (plural bantai-bantai)

1. the part of the kitchen under the firewood storage, usually where smoked fish or meat is stored. [since 2017]

• “bantai”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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bantai (Jawi spelling بنتاي, plural bantai-bantai or bantai²)

1. meat; slaughtered animal.

bantai (Jawi spelling بنتاي) (transitive)

1. to slaughter; to cut off (animal's neck).

   Synonym: sembelih

2. to hit or strike heavily.

• > Indonesian: bantai (inherited)

• "bantai" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017