Etymograph

English

pulasan

Pulasan comes from Malay pulasan ‘fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium…’, and goes back to pulas ‘twist’.

  1. Malaymodernpulas1‘twist’
  2. Malay, derivedmodernpulasan2‘fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium ramboutan-ake’
  3. Englishtodaypulasan2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Malay pulasan
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English pulasan

Lineage

  1. MalaymodernpulasWiktionary, Malay pulasan‘twist’
  2. Malay, derivedmodernpulasanWiktionary, English pulasan‘fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium ramboutan-ake’
  3. EnglishtodaypulasanWiktionary, English pulasan

Every English word from Malay pulas

Today it means

noun The fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium ramboutan-ake (syn. N. mutabile)

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pulasan”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Malay pulasan. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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