mentah

From Malay mentah, from Proto-Malayic *məntah (compare Malay mentah), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mataq (compare Chamorro mata', Gilbertese mata, Hawaiian maka, Malagasy manta, Maori mata).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /mənˈtah/ [mən̪ˈt̪ah]
• Rhymes: -ah
• Syllabification: men‧tah

mentah (comparative lebih mentah, superlative paling mentah)

1. raw, uncooked
2. (of fruit) unripe
3. (cooking) rawish

• “mentah”, 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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mataq (~ *mətaq), compare Old Javanese mĕtah.

mentah

1. raw

From Proto-Malayic *məntah (compare Indonesian mentah), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mataq (compare Chamorro mata', Gilbertese mata, Hawaiian maka, Malagasy manta, Maori mata).

• IPA^(key): /məntah/
• Rhymes: -əntah, -tah, -ah

mentah (Jawi spelling منته)

1. raw (uncooked)

• “mentah”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017