| Malay > English |
| akar |
| 1. n. a root, a part of a plant that generally grow underground to absorbs water and nutrients. |
| 2. n. a creeping or climbing plant; liana. |
| 3. n. (figurative) origin or primary source. |
| 4. n. (of tooth) the part of a tooth that extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. |
| 5. n. (of hair) the part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place. |
| 6. n. (Indonesian, arithmetic) of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression. |
| 7. n. (linguistic morphology) the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. See akar kata. |