Where does “kelapa sawit” come from?

kelapa sawit (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian kelapa, from Malay kelapa, from Classical Malay kelapa — The coconut palm; A fruit of the coconut palm.

kelapa sawit (Indonesian): oil palm

Definitions

  1. oil palm

Ancestry of “kelapa sawit”, step by step

kelapa sawit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian kelapa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IndonesiankelapaThe coconut palm; A fruit of the coconut palm
2Malaykelapacoconut
3Classical MalaykelapaThe coconut palm; A fruit of the coconut palm

via Indonesian sawit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiansawitoil palm
2Javaneseꦱꦮꦶꦠ꧀—
3Old Javanesesawit—

Words derived from “kelapa sawit”

Every word from Classical Malay kelapa →Every word from Malay kelapa →Every word from Indonesian kelapa →