petai

petai

1. stink bean, bitter bean (Parkia speciosa)

petai

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of petar

From Malay petai, from Classical Malay ڤتاي (petai).

• IPA^(key): [pəˈt̪ai̯]
• Hyphenation: pê‧tai

pêtai (plural petai-petai)

1. stink bean, bitter bean (Parkia speciosa)

• “petai”, 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

petai

1. first-person singular past historic of petare

Compare Javanese peté. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /pətai̯/
• Rhymes: -tai̯, -ai̯

petai (Jawi spelling ڤتاي, plural petai-petai)

1. stink bean, bitter bean (Parkia speciosa)

• Indonesian: petai

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

petai

1. (literary) third-person singular counterfactual imperfect subjunctive of bod

• fel petai (“as if; as it were”)