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nasi

/nəˈsiː//ˈnɑː.si/

nasi noun: cooked rice. Also the plural of nasus.

Noun (1)

nasi (uncountable)

  1. Cooked rice.

Noun (2)

nasi (uncountable)

  1. The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.

Also used as

nasi is also the plural of nasus.

Forms of nasi

alternative formnasi'

Origin of nasi

Borrowed from Malay nasi.

Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيء (nasīʔ, literally “postponement”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from nasi

Phrases with nasi

Words that rhyme with nasi

Questions about nasi

What does nasi mean?
Nasi means cooked rice.
What part of speech is nasi?
Nasi is a noun.
How do you pronounce nasi?
Nasi is pronounced /ˈnɑː.si/ (UK).

Words near nasi in the dictionary

  1. Nashvillean
  2. Nashvilleans
  3. Nashvilles
  4. Nashvillian
  5. Nashvillians
  6. nasi
  7. nasi ambeng
  8. nasi briyani
  9. nasi goreng
  10. nasi goreng pattaya
  11. nasi gorengs

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