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Inherited from Malay lampu, from Malayo-Portuguese lampu, from Dutch lamp (“lamp”), from Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”). Doublet of lampion.
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈlampu/ [ˈlam.pu]
- Rhymes: -ampu
- Syllabification: lam‧pu
lampu (plural **lampu-lampu)
“lampu”, 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
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- inflection of lampa:
Borrowed from Malayo-Portuguese lampu (whence Tugunese and Kristang lampu),[1] from Dutch lamp (“lamp”), from Middle Dutch lampe, from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas (“lamp; torch; lantern”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch; lamp”), from λάμπω (lámpō, “shine”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“glow”).
lampu (Jawi spelling لمڤو, plural **lampu-lampu or **lampu2)
- lamp
Synonym: pelita - (figurative) enlightener of thought and spirit
- ^ Indonesian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- "lampu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [_Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)_] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
- IPA(key): /lampu/, [ˈlampu]
- Rhymes: -ampu
- Hyphenation: lam‧pu
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