See dekan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"decaan",
"decaan#Dutch"
],
[
"dean",
"dean"
],
[
"decānus",
"decanus#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "nl",
"3": "decaan",
"t": "dean"
},
"expansion": "Dutch decaan (“dean”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "la-lat",
"3": "decānus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin decānus",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch decaan (“dean”), from Late Latin decānus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dekan-dekan",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dekan²",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dekan (plural dekan-dekan or dekan²)",
"name": "ms-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"dean (of an academic institution)"
],
"id": "en-dekan-ms-noun-0W9-FUZV",
"links": [
[
"dean",
"dean"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dekan"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"word": "dekan"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*dəka(a)n",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Aslian/dəka(a)n"
],
[
"*d₁kan",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/d₁kan"
],
[
"dkhan",
"dkhan#Khasi"
],
[
"cẳn",
"cẳn#Muong"
]
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "sza",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Semelai",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "mkh-asl-pro",
"3": "*dəka(a)n"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Aslian *dəka(a)n",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "mkh-pro",
"3": "*d₁kan",
"4": "",
"5": "bamboo rat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁kan (“bamboo rat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kha",
"2": "dkhan",
"3": "",
"4": "hill rat, mole"
},
"expansion": "Khasi dkhan (“hill rat, mole”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "mtq",
"2": "cẳn",
"3": "",
"4": "bamboo rat"
},
"expansion": "Muong cẳn (“bamboo rat”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kjg",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Khmu",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Semelai dkan, from Proto-Aslian *dəka(a)n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁kan (“bamboo rat”). Compare Khasi dkhan (“hill rat, mole”), Muong cẳn (“bamboo rat”) and Khmu tkan (\"mole\").",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "dekan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 5 4 6 29 3 28 3 5 11 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 10 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 5 4 5 32 2 31 1 4 12 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"large bamboo rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis)."
],
"id": "en-dekan-ms-noun-gHwAEgU8",
"links": [
[
"Rhizomys sumatrensis",
"Rhizomys sumatrensis#Translingual"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dəkan/"
}
],
"word": "dekan"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay nouns",
"Malay terms borrowed from Dutch",
"Malay terms derived from Dutch",
"Malay terms derived from Late Latin",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Aslian",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer",
"Malay terms derived from Semelai",
"Pages with 10 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"decaan",
"decaan#Dutch"
],
[
"dean",
"dean"
],
[
"decānus",
"decanus#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "nl",
"3": "decaan",
"t": "dean"
},
"expansion": "Dutch decaan (“dean”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "la-lat",
"3": "decānus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin decānus",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch decaan (“dean”), from Late Latin decānus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dekan-dekan",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dekan²",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dekan (plural dekan-dekan or dekan²)",
"name": "ms-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"dean (of an academic institution)"
],
"links": [
[
"dean",
"dean"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dekan"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay nouns",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Aslian",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer",
"Malay terms derived from Semelai",
"Pages with 10 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"word": "dekan"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*dəka(a)n",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Aslian/dəka(a)n"
],
[
"*d₁kan",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/d₁kan"
],
[
"dkhan",
"dkhan#Khasi"
],
[
"cẳn",
"cẳn#Muong"
]
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "sza",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Semelai",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "mkh-asl-pro",
"3": "*dəka(a)n"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Aslian *dəka(a)n",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "mkh-pro",
"3": "*d₁kan",
"4": "",
"5": "bamboo rat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁kan (“bamboo rat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kha",
"2": "dkhan",
"3": "",
"4": "hill rat, mole"
},
"expansion": "Khasi dkhan (“hill rat, mole”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "mtq",
"2": "cẳn",
"3": "",
"4": "bamboo rat"
},
"expansion": "Muong cẳn (“bamboo rat”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kjg",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Khmu",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Semelai dkan, from Proto-Aslian *dəka(a)n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁kan (“bamboo rat”). Compare Khasi dkhan (“hill rat, mole”), Muong cẳn (“bamboo rat”) and Khmu tkan (\"mole\").",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "dekan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa"
],
"glosses": [
"large bamboo rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis)."
],
"links": [
[
"Rhizomys sumatrensis",
"Rhizomys sumatrensis#Translingual"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dəkan/"
}
],
"word": "dekan"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dekan meaning in Malay (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Malay dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). 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.