nutfah
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic نُطْفَةٌ (nuṭfatun). Attested before 1950.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈnʊt̪̚fah]
- Hyphenation: nút‧fah
Noun
nutfah (plural nutfah-nutfah)
- ejaculate
- Synonym: mani
- (agriculture) embryo
Further reading
- “nutfah”, 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