rattan en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹəˈtæn/ (US)
- /ˈɹatan/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- /ɹəˈtan/ (UK)
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay rotan.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
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(uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 180:Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 162:
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(broadly, countable, uncountable) A cane made from this material.
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula:[…]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline[…]
2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ratan | alternative | lexicographic | |
| rattans | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
rattan palm · polyrattan · rattanware · rattan pepper · ant rattan · rattanlike
Translations (77)
izh saksanrooko (material) · mel wai (climbing palm) · nb rotting (material) · tr hezaren (climbing palm) · de Peddigrohr (material) · fr rotin (climbing palm) · pl rotang (material) · hu rotángpálma (climbing palm) · tr rattan (material) · te పేము (climbing palm) · ota هزارن (material) · es ratán (material) · it rattan (climbing palm) · lod laka (climbing palm) · njo-jgl arer (climbing palm) · tr rattan (climbing palm) · fi rottinki (material) · kxd rutan (material) · de Rotangpalme (climbing palm) · mbb belaɣen (climbing palm) · id rotan (climbing palm) · id rotan (material) · ga ratán (material) · nn rotting (material) · nb rotang (material) · nl rotan (climbing palm) · da rotting (material) · tft uri (climbing palm) · af rottang (material) · da rotting (climbing palm) · my ကြိမ် (material) · ceb uway (climbing palm) · nn rotang (climbing palm) · ms rotan (climbing palm) · vi song (climbing palm) · ta சூரல் (climbing palm) · cmn 藤 (climbing palm) · de Rattan (climbing palm) · sv rotting (climbing palm) · da rattan (material) · cmn 藤 (material) · sib laka (climbing palm) · vi mây (climbing palm) · sv rotting (material) · mqs weri (climbing palm) · fr rotin (material) · vi mây (material) · nn rotang (material) · tr hezaren (material) · ota هزارن (climbing palm) · da rattan (climbing palm) · pt rota (climbing palm) · th หวาย (climbing palm) · ta பிரம்பு (material) · ms rotan (material) · pt rotim (material) · nb rotang (climbing palm) · akl uway (climbing palm) · fi rottinkipalmu (climbing palm) · pwn quai (climbing palm) · de Rattan (material) · ru рота́нг (material) · ga ratán (climbing palm) · kxd rutan (climbing palm) · nl rotan (material) · tsg uay (climbing palm) · mba balagun (climbing palm) · pl rotang (climbing palm) · pt rotim (climbing palm) · th หวาย (material) · pl rattan (climbing palm) · ru рота́нг (climbing palm) · cmn 藤條 /藤条 (material) · hu rotángpálma (material) · es ratán (climbing palm) · vi song (material) · ta பிரம்பு (climbing palm)