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getah

Pronunciation: /ɡəˈtah/

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

noun

  1. sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition
  2. latex: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber
  3. fluid, juice: a clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)

Etymology

From Malay getah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.

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