See Melaka on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ms",
"3": "Melaka"
},
"expansion": "Malay Melaka",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Malay Melaka.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Melaka",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Malacca"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "83 8 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 10 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Malacca."
],
"id": "en-Melaka-en-name-7LZ1QYM5",
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "Melaka"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Probably after melaka (“Indian gooseberry”) that grows in the region.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ملاک",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"j": "ملاک"
},
"expansion": "Melaka (Jawi spelling ملاک)",
"name": "ms-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Malacca, Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Malacca, Malaysia",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Places in Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Places in Malaysia",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "States of Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:States of Malaysia",
"parents": [
"States",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Malacca (a state of Malaysia; capital and largest city: Malacca)"
],
"id": "en-Melaka-ms-name-ip5gm0AW",
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"Malaysia",
"Malaysia#English"
],
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Cities in Malacca, Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Cities in Malacca, Malaysia",
"parents": [
"Cities",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Cities in Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Cities in Malaysia",
"parents": [
"Cities",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Places in Malacca, Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Places in Malacca, Malaysia",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "Places in Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:Places in Malaysia",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ms",
"name": "State capitals of Malaysia",
"orig": "ms:State capitals of Malaysia",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Malacca (the largest city, the state capital of Malacca, Malaysia)"
],
"id": "en-Melaka-ms-name-nXnjeF70",
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"large",
"large"
],
[
"city",
"city"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"capital",
"capital"
],
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"Malaysia",
"Malaysia#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/məˈlaka/",
"note": "Literary Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "[məˈla.ka]",
"note": "Literary Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "/məˈlakə/",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "[məˈla.kə]",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"rhymes": "-akə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-kə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-a"
}
],
"word": "Melaka"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ms",
"3": "Melaka"
},
"expansion": "Malay Melaka",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Malay Melaka.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Melaka",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Malacca"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Malay",
"English terms derived from Malay",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Malacca."
],
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "Melaka"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay 3-syllable words",
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay proper nouns",
"Malay terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Malay/a",
"Rhymes:Malay/a/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:Malay/akə",
"Rhymes:Malay/kə",
"Rhymes:Malay/ə"
],
"etymology_text": "Probably after melaka (“Indian gooseberry”) that grows in the region.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ملاک",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"j": "ملاک"
},
"expansion": "Melaka (Jawi spelling ملاک)",
"name": "ms-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"ms:Malacca, Malaysia",
"ms:Places in Malaysia",
"ms:States of Malaysia"
],
"glosses": [
"Malacca (a state of Malaysia; capital and largest city: Malacca)"
],
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"Malaysia",
"Malaysia#English"
],
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"ms:Cities in Malacca, Malaysia",
"ms:Cities in Malaysia",
"ms:Places in Malacca, Malaysia",
"ms:Places in Malaysia",
"ms:State capitals of Malaysia"
],
"glosses": [
"Malacca (the largest city, the state capital of Malacca, Malaysia)"
],
"links": [
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"large",
"large"
],
[
"city",
"city"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"capital",
"capital"
],
[
"Malacca",
"Malacca#English"
],
[
"Malaysia",
"Malaysia#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/məˈlaka/",
"note": "Literary Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "[məˈla.ka]",
"note": "Literary Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "/məˈlakə/",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "[məˈla.kə]",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"rhymes": "-akə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-kə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-a"
}
],
"word": "Melaka"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Melaka meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.