KBBI (via kbbi.web.id mirror) — "gemas" and "geram"
- Author: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (Indonesian Ministry of Education's national language body) — the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI), Indonesia's official standard dictionary; this record uses the
kbbi.web.idmirror after the officialkbbi.kemdikbud.go.idhost failed to resolve (DNS failure, a new blocked-host shape — added to the standing fences list). - Publication: KBBI Daring (Online KBBI), 6th edition content, via kbbi.web.id
- Date: dictionary undated (living reference); accessed 2026-09-05
- URL: https://kbbi.web.id/gemas ; https://kbbi.web.id/geram
- Type: primary (official national dictionary of the source language); neutral/lexicographic stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-05
Extract
- gemas (adjective), two senses given: (1) "sangat jengkel (marah) dalam hati" — "deeply irritated/angry within" (example: irritation at someone dirtying the floor); (2) "sangat suka (cinta) bercampur jengkel" — "strong fondness/love mixed with irritation." Derived forms: menggemaskan (to provoke/trigger the gemas feeling), kegemasan (noun, the state of feeling gemas).
- geram¹ (adjective): "marah sekali; gemas" — "very angry; = gemas" (a direct cross-reference between the two headwords). Derived forms: menggeramkan ("membangkitkan marah," to provoke anger), kegeraman ("kemarahan; kegemasan," anger/irritation).
- This project's own primary-source lexicographic check does not confirm the specific "urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite" cute-aggression element that dominates the popular/psychological-literature framing (see Wiktionary and Aragón-paper sources) as part of either headword's official definition. KBBI's own gloss for both words stops at the more general "fondness/love mixed with irritation" (gemas) or a bare cross-reference (geram) — the specific physical-urge detail is an elaboration found in secondary/popular sources and Wiktionary, not the primary national dictionary's own headword sense. This is the same "primary dictionary's plainer gloss than the popular elaborated sense" pattern already on file for tizita and (for the exceptional/curiosity framing specifically) komorebi.
- KBBI treats gemas and geram as near-synonyms via direct cross-reference (geram → "= gemas"), despite Wiktionary tracing them to different etymological origins (native Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root vs. Persian loanword) — the dictionary's synchronic treatment collapses a diachronic distinction.
Gaps
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- The official
kbbi.kemdikbud.go.idhost itself could not be reached (DNS resolution failure) — noted as a new fence; thekbbi.web.idmirror is a widely used, longstanding unofficial mirror of the same official content, not independently cross-checked against a second mirror this session.