cokelat
Indonesian
cokelat
Etymology
From dialectal Dutch (Standard Dutch chocolade, archaic form chocolaad), from Spanish chocolate, ultimately of Nahuatl origin (compare Malay coklat). The current pronunciation is influenced by English chocolate (see Malay coklat), or the second -o- of chocolade is dropped.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃɔ.kəˈlat/
- Rhymes: -lat, -at
Noun
cokêlat (plural cokelat-cokelat, first-person possessive cokelatku, second-person possessive cokelatmu, third-person possessive cokelatnya)
- (countable) chocolate (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans)
- sebatang cokelat ― a bar of chocolate
- (uncountable) brown (color)
- rambut berwarna cokelat ― brown colored hair
Alternative forms
- soklat
- coklat (Indonesian)
- (chocolate): coklat (Standard Malay)
Synonyms
- (color): pérang (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
- kecokelatan
- kecokelat-cokelatan
- mencokelatkan
- pencokelatan
- bondol cokelat
- cokelat bubuk
- cokelat hitam
- cokelat kovertur
- cokelat putih
- cokelat susu
Further reading
- “cokelat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.