Padi

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Padang, Ladang & Sawah

Do you know the difference between padang, ladang and sawah? Click on the plus (+) sign to see the answer.

Padi & Paddy

In English, both wet and dry rice fields are referred to as paddy fields. The term ‘paddy’ is borrowed from the Indonesian-Malay word padi, which can mean 1. rice, especially threshed unmilled rice, or 2. wet land in which rice is grown.

It is common for words borrowed from one language to another to undergo a shift in meaning, and this is the case here. The English word PADDY is derived from Malay padi, but padi never means ‘rice field’!

In Indonesian padi refers exclusively to the rice plant, or to unhusked rice! Once the rice is husked, it is called beras. When cooked, it becomes nasi, and when overcooked, it turns into bubur (porridge).

There is a popular Indonesian proverb: Nasi sudah menjadi bubur (the rice has turned into porridge). You say this in regret to something that you have done, and that cannot be undone. In a situation like that, in English we would simply say: “It’s too late (to make a change)”. The proverb conveys the idea that a situation has already deteriorated or become irreparable, similar to the English expression “It’s no use crying over spilled milk.” It suggests that just as rice cannot be turned back into individual grains once it has become porridge, a situation that has already progressed cannot be reversed.

Dikte

Click on the plus sign and read the summary of the text that we are going to watch carefully. Pay attention to the spelling of each word as this is a dictation exercise. After you have read the text, close the spoiler, and then complete the dictation exercise.

Bacaan

Padi

1. Padi (bahasa Latin: Oryza sativa L.) merupakan tanaman Indonesia yang paling penting. Indonesia menjadi penghasil padi ketiga besar setelah Tiongkok dan India.
2. Padi bisa ditanam di sawah atau di ladang. Padi sawah sangat banyak membutuhkan air. Untuk mengairi sawah digunakan sistem irigasi dari mata air, sungai atau air hujan. Sedangkan padi ladang tidak membutuhkan banyak air dan sering ditanam di antara pohon lain seperti jati atau singkong.
3. Setelah padi dipanen, padi diproses menjadi beras. Beras itulah yang dapat kita beli di toko.
4. Indonesia menghasilkan beberapa jenis beras. Yang paling umum adalah beras putih. Beras putih digunakan untuk menjadi nasi putih. Nasi putih merupakan makanan utama orang Indonesia dan biasanya disajikan dengan lauk. Lauk adalah makanan seperti daging, ikan, atau sayur yang dimakan sebagai teman nasi.
5. Beras merah relatif jarang dimakan di Indonesia walaupun lebih sehat karena mengandung banyak gizi.
6. Selain beras putih dan beras merah ada juga beras ketan. Beras ketan ada yang putih, dan ada juga yang hitam. Ketan hitam umum dimasak dengan santan dan gula merah menjadi bubur ketan hitam.
7. Nasi adalah beras yang sudah direbus. Beras akan menjadi bubur kalau lama direbus. Bubur ikan dan bubur ayam adalah masakan yang sangat populer di Indonesia.
8. Orang Indonesia biasanya makan nasi tiga kali dalam sehari: pagi, siang, dan malam. Kalau setelah makan malam masih ada nasi yang tersisa, nasi itu disimpan untuk pagi hari untuk menjadi nasi goreng. Oleh karena itu nasi goreng biasanya dimakan sebagai sarapan.

-lah

Look at Sneddon 3.51-53 for the various functions of the particle -lah. In our sentence Beras itulah yang dapat kita beli di toko -lah functions as a foregrounder. Sneddon writes:

Latihan Pemahaman

Dapat

Look at the following two sentences:

In both cases the verb is passive as the patient (beras and padi) are in initial position. A grammatical construct as “can be” is expressed by either bisa di-… or dapat di-…

Bisa and dapat are synonyms. Bisa is used in colloquial language whereas dapat is typically used in the formal register. The language of the media can be described as a kind of relaxed formal language where both types of register can be employed.

Note that dapat kita beli (can be bought by us) in our text is also a passive construct known as Passive Type 2. If you forgot what that is, consult James Sneddon, Reference Grammar (International Edition) or Comprehensive Grammar (US Edition) 3.28.

Another example of the formal register is setelah (after), which is sesudah in more colloquial Indonesian. Likewise telah is the same as sudah. You never use telah in spoken language whereas both sudah and telah are accepted in written language.

If you don’t know what passive means, look it up here. English has only one passive voice, Indonesian has a few.

Pohon

According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, a tree is defined as a “woody plant that regularly renews its growth (perennial). Most plants classified as trees have a single self-supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in most species the trunk produces secondary limbs, called branches.”

Pohon Jahe

In Indonesian, the semantic spectrum of pohon is much wider than that of a tree. Every plant with a stem is considered pohon. This includes all kinds of plants that would never be called a tree, such as cabai (chilli), jahe (ginger), and even climbing plants such as kacang panjang (long beans), and woody shrubs such as singkong (ubi kayu) (Cassava) are classified as pohon.

Merupakan

Merupakan (to be, constitute) is similar to adalah (to be), but there are two differences: 1. Merupakan can be negated whereas adalah cannot. 2. Merupakan can only be used for nominal subjects. Therefore, you cannot say saya merupakan) because saya is a pronoun and not a noun. Even though merupakan is formed with affix -kan it is intransitive. There is hence no passive.

It is frequently used to avoid the use of adalah in two consecutive sentences: Padi merupakan makanan utama orang Indonesia dan biasanya disajikan dengan lauk. Lauk adalah makanan seperti daging, ikan, atau sayur yang dimakan sebagai teman nasi.

Latihan Kosa Kata 2: Terjemahkan

Latihan Kosa Kata 3

Latihan Mendengarkan

Latihan Penutup

Bubur Ketan Hitam

Here is a recipe for this delicious dessert in case you want to try it.

Bubur ketan hitam (black rice porridge) is an Indonesian sweet dessert made from black glutinous rice (beras ketan hitam) with coconut milk (santan), and palm sugar (gula merah). Salt and pandan leaves (daun pandan) are added to enhance the flavour. It is often served as dessert or snack, for supper, for tea time, for breakfast, or to break the fast (buka puasa).

There are many recipes available online, such as this. Note that this recipe calls for palm sugar (gula merah) and granulated sugar (gula pasir). In Indonesia, gula pasir is always white sugar, but you can also use brown sugar. However you should not substitute gula merah with either white or brown sugar! Palm sugar has a very distinctive taste, which is completely different from cane sugar or beet sugar. It is made either from the sugar palm (enau) or from the coconut palm. Buy the one from the sugar palm! It is usually sold in round blocks, and it is dark reddish brown in colour.

Not all recipes use pandan leaves, but it does make a difference! Palm sugar and pandan leaves (an Indonesian loanword in the English language) are available at any Asian grocery.

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