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lapah

Pronunciation: [ˈla.pah]

“lapah” is an Indonesian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to skin; to flay; to fleece
  2. to chop into pieces (of slaughtered cattle)
  3. to tear, to pull apart, to rip with violence

Etymology

From Malay lapah, from Classical Malay لاڤه (lapah), from Proto-Malayic *lapah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

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