belacan

belacan (uncountable)

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

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• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /bəˈlat͡ʃan/ [bəˈla.t͡ʃan]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan
• Syllabification: be‧la‧can

Inherited from Malay belacan.

bêlacan (plural belacan-belacan)

1. belachan (a shrimp-paste condiment)

   Synonym: terasi

Borrowed 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 [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

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

• (schwa-variety, Baku, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bəˈlat͡ʃan/ [bəˈla.t͡ʃan]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan, -t͡ʃan, -an
• Hyphenation: la‧can

belacan (Jawi spelling بلاچن, uncountable)

1. A Malay condiment made from fermented shrimp paste.

   Synonym: terasi (Indonesia)

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

• "belacan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), 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.