From Malay materai, meterai, menterai, from Classical Malay متراي (materai), متراي (menterai), متراي (meterai), from Tamil முத்திரை (muttirai, “mark, seal, stamp”), from Sanskrit मुद्रा (mudrā, “seal, stamp”).

• Displaced Dutch zegel (“seal, stamp”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

• IPA^(key): [mət̪əˈrai]
• Hyphenation: mê‧tê‧rai

meterai (plural meterai-meterai)

1. stamp

   Synonyms: cap, segel, tera

• materai (nonstandard)

• “meterai”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Classical Malay menterai, Tamil முத்திரை (muttirai, “mark, seal, stamp”), from Sanskrit मुद्रा (mudrā, “seal, stamp”).

• The second pronunciation is a spelling pronunciation that resulted from a rebracketing of meterai as being an affixation of *metera +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /mətəˈraj/ [mə.t̪əˈrai̯]
  • Rhymes: -rai̯, -ai̯
  • Hyphenation: me‧te‧rai

• IPA^(key): /mətəˈraʔi/ [mə.t̪əˈra.ʔi] (rebracketing, verb, alternative)
  • Rhymes: -ʔi, -i
  • Hyphenation: me‧te‧ra‧i

meterai (Jawi spelling متراي, plural meterai-meterai or meterai²)

1. stamp

   Synonyms: cap, tera

meterai (Jawi spelling متراي, active memeterai, third-person passive dimeterai)

1. to stamp

   Synonyms: cap, tera

• "meterai" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017