silet

From English Gillette, the name of a popular company producing safety razors, named after their inventor and the company's founder, King C. Gillette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsilɛt̚/
• Hyphenation: si‧lèt

silèt (first-person possessive siletku, second-person possessive siletmu, third-person possessive siletnya)

1. razor blade

   Synonym: pisau cukur

• → Ternate: silet

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

silet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sileō

From Arabic سَلَتَ‎ (salata).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.lɛt/

silet (imperfect jislet, past participle mislut, verbal noun slit)

1. to extract, draw out, pull out
2. to thin, to make something thin
3. to detach
4. to take from [+ minn (object)]

   Kliem mislut mid-diskors ta' George Vella. ― Words taken from the speech of George Vella.

5. (lil + pronoun + ruħ/qalb + pronoun) to affect, to move

   kliemek silitli ruħi ― Your words moved me.

Borrowed from Indonesian silet, from English Gillette.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.let]

silet

1. razor blade

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh