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rendang

Pronunciation: /rənˈdaŋ/

“rendang” is a Malay word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. frying in nothing more than a little oil or fat; dry-currying
  2. to fricassee
  3. to sauté
  4. rendang, a rich, spicy meat curry of Minangkabau origin made by slowly cooking in coconut milk until dry

adjective

  1. shady (of tree)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic [Term?]. Cognate of Minangkabau randang, Iban rendai, Urak Lawoi' เรอนัก (renak) and Pattani Malay รฺือแน (ṛənᵈɛ). First attested in the classical Malay literary work Hikayat Amir Hamzah as early as the 1550s, which had been translated into Malay from the Persian original. The fourth sense is a semantic loan from Minangkabau randang.

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