cokelat

Indonesian

cokelat

Etymology

From dialectal Dutch (Standard Dutch chocolade, archaic form chocolaad), from Spanish chocolate, ultimately of Nahuatl origin (compare Malay coklat). The current pronunciation is influenced by English chocolate (see Malay coklat), or the second -o- of chocolade is dropped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔ.kəˈlat/

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• Rhymes: -lat, -at

Noun

cokêlat (plural cokelat-cokelat, first-person possessive cokelatku, second-person possessive cokelatmu, third-person possessive cokelatnya)

1. (countable) chocolate (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans)

   sebatang cokelat ― a bar of chocolate

2. (uncountable) brown (color)

   cokelat:  

   rambut berwarna cokelat ― brown colored hair

Alternative forms

• soklat
• coklat (Indonesian)
• chocolade (pre-1947)
• (chocolate): coklat (Standard Malay)

Synonyms

• (color): pérang (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

• kecokelat-cokelatan
• kecokelatan
• mencokelatkan
• pencokelatan

 

• bondol cokelat
• cokelat bubuk
• cokelat hitam
• cokelat kovertur
• cokelat putih
• cokelat susu

 

Further reading

• “cokelat” 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.