perai

perai (plural perais or perai)

1. Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”).
   • Charles C. Abbott, Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Natural History (page 599)

     A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows. If a monkey or bird, when shot, falls in the water, perai rush together from all quarters and carry off the prey before the sportsman can reach it, […]

Inherited from Malay perai.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pəˈrai̯/ [pəˈrai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Syllabification: pe‧rai

perai (active memerai, reflexive passive terperai, ordinary passive diperai, imperative perai, emphatic-jussive perailah)

1. to disintegrate.

From Dutch vrij, from Middle Dutch vri, from Old Dutch frī, from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz, which derives from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to be fond of”).

• IPA^(key): [pəˈrai̯]
• Hyphenation: pê‧rai

pêrai

1. (colloquial) to have holiday

   Synonym: libur

2. (colloquial) to have something free

   Synonym: gratis

Inherited from Malay perai.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pəˈrai̯/ [pəˈrai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Syllabification: pe‧rai

perai

1. to tack

• “perai”, 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