lontar

From Balinese lontar, Indonesian lontar, from Old Javanese rontal.

lontar (plural lontars or lontar)

1. The palmyra, or leaves of this tree as used for manuscripts in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.
   • 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, p. 128:

     The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved.

   • 2000, Raechelle Rubinstein, Beyond the Realm of the Senses, p. 26:

     The technology of lontar writing in Bali, on the other hand, has never severely impeded the circulation of texts.

• Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) gives a new life to palm-leaf manuscripts, a blog entry from Diff that has several photos and discusses lontar reading, preservation, and digitization efforts

• latron, rontal, tornal

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔnt̪ar]
• Hyphenation: lon‧tar

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lontar

1. to throw.

   Synonym: lempar

lontar tree

lontar manuscript

From Javanese lontar, rontal (ꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦂ, ꦫꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦭ꧀), from Old Javanese lontar, rontar, rontal, compound of ron (“leaf”) +‎ tal, tala (“palm”), from Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palm”).

lontar (first-person possessive lontarku, second-person possessive lontarmu, third-person possessive lontarnya)

1. lontar:
   1. the tree (Borassus flabellifer).

      Synonym: siwalan

   2. the leaf.
   3. the manuscripts.

• rontal

• “lontar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.