simbar

Inherited from Malay [Term?]. Compare Javanese ꦱꦶꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ (simbar, “hair on the chest”), Old Javanese simbar (“parasitic growth on the bark, small fern-like growth, leaf-like ornament or decoration”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsimbar/ [ˈsim.bar]
• Rhymes: -imbar
• Syllabification: sim‧bar

simbar (plural simbar-simbar)

1. (botany) basket fern (Drynaria sparsisora).
2. hair that grows on a man's chest
3. (architecture, archaeology) antefix

   Synonym: antefiks

4. a large teak tree whose branches are covered in weeds
5. carved motif in the form of small leaves attached to the front of the tree leaf

• “simbar”, 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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• IPA^(key): /simˈbaɾ/ [sĩmˈbaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sim‧bar

simbar (first-person singular present simbo, first-person singular preterite simbé, past participle simbado)

1. (Bolivia, Northern Argentina) to plait; to braid

   Synonym: trenzar

• “simbar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010