berat

See also: Berat, berät, and bērāt

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/

Noun

berat

1. weight

Adjective

berat

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. hard: having a severe property; presenting difficulty.

   Synonyms: lembau, serut

3. hurried
4. hesitant

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay berat, from Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat. Doublet of bobot.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /bəˈrat/ [bəˈrat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: be‧rat

Adjective

bêrat

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. grave; severe; serious

   Akibat kecelakaan itu, dia terkena luka berat. ― Because of the accident, he got serious injury.

3. hard; difficult
4. inclinational
5. (figurative) cursed; ill-fated

Synonyms

• (grave, serious): parah
• (grave, serious): teruk (Standard Malay)
• (hard): sulit, susah
• (inclinational): cenderung, memihak
• (cursed, ill-fated): celaka

Noun

bêrat (plural berat-berat)

1. (classical mechanics) weight

   Synonym: bobot

2. (colloquial) mass

   Synonym: massa

Affixed terms

• berberat
• berkeberatan
• diperberat
• keberatan
• memberati
• memberatkan
• memperberat
• pemberat
• pemberatan
• terberat

Compounds

• berat bibir
• berat ekor
• berat hati
• berat hidup
• berat jenis
• berat kaki
• berat kepala
• berat lidah
• berat mata
• berat mulut
• berat otak
• berat pinggul
• berat sapih
• berat sebelah
• berat siku
• berat tangan
• berat telinga
• berat tulang

• alat berat

Related terms

• bobot

Further reading

• “berat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Verb

berat

1. second-person plural present indicative of bērt

Malay

Alternative forms

• beghot (Natuna)
• beghat (Pontianak)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bərat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bəʀəqat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bərat/
• Rhymes: -ərat, -rat, -at

• Audio (Malaysia):

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Noun

berat (Jawi spelling برت, informal 1st possessive beratku, 2nd possessive beratmu, 3rd possessive beratnya)

1. (physics) weight

Adjective

berat (Jawi spelling برت)

1. heavy (having great weight), weight
2. onerous, arduous

Further reading

• “berat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲerad/

Verb

·berat

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive conjunct of beirid

Mutation

Mutation of berat

radical	lenition	nasalization
·berat	·berat pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	·mberat

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.