repelan

Learned borrowing from Latin repellant, repellō (“to drive away, reject, remove, discard; keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /reˈpelan/ [reˈpe.lan]
• Rhymes: -elan
• Syllabification: re‧pe‧lan

repelan (plural repelan-repelan)

1. repellent (substance used to repel animals)

• “repelan”, 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

repelan

1. third-person plural present indicative of repelar
2. inflection of repeler:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative