silat

Borrowed from Malay silat (“self-defense”).

silat (uncountable)

1. A type of martial art originating from the Malay Archipelago.

• Itals, A list, tails, Laits, itals, ATLIs, talis, laits, alist, Laist, litas, stail, A-list, Talsi, Latis

silat

1. nominative plural of sila

• altis, lasit, lasti, lista, litsa, salit, silta, talsi, tilsa

Inherited from Malay silat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.lat/, [ˈsi.lat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: si‧lat

silat

1. self-defense

   Synonym: bela diri

2. ellipsis of pencak silat (“Indonesian martial arts”)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsilat/ [ˈsi.lat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: si‧lat

silat (Jawi spelling سيلت, uncountable)

1. self-defense

• "silat" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səlat (“narrow opening or passage between two things”). Compare Malay selat (“strait”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˈlat/ [sɪˈlat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: si‧lat

silát (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜆ᜔)

1. slit or open crack between the strips of bamboo flooring, walling, etc.

• “silat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*selat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• tilas, litas, salit, lista