nutfah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic نُطْفَةٌ (nuṭfatun). Attested before 1950.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈnʊt̪̚fah]
Hyphenation: nút‧fah

Noun

nutfah (first-person possessive nutfahku, second-person possessive nutfahmu, third-person possessive nutfahnya)

ejaculate.
Synonym: mani
(agriculture) embryo

Further reading

“nutfah” 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.

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