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From Balinese lontar, Indonesian lontar, from Old Javanese rontal.

lontar (plural lontars or lontar)

1. The palmyra or leaves of this tree as used for palm-leaf manuscripts in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.

   • 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 128:

     The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved.

   • 2000, Raechelle Rubinstein, Beyond the Realm of the Senses, page 26:

     The technology of lontar writing in Bali, on the other hand, has never severely impeded the circulation of texts.

• Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) gives a new life to palm-leaf manuscripts, a blog entry from Diff that has several photos and discusses lontar reading, preservation, and digitization efforts

• latron, rontal, tornal

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔnt̪ar]
• Hyphenation: lon‧tar

From Malay lontar.

lontar

1. to throw.

   Synonym: lempar

From Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦂ, ꦫꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦭ꧀ (lontar, rontal), from Old Javanese lontar, rontar, rontal, compound of ron (“leaf”) +‎ tal, tala (“palm”), from Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palm”).

lontar (first-person possessive lontarku, second-person possessive lontarmu, third-person possessive lontarnya)

1. lontar:
   1. the tree (Borassus flabellifer).

      Synonym: siwalan

   2. the leaf
   3. the palm-leaf manuscript

• rontal

• “lontar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

lontar

1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦂ