Wiktionary — "gemas" (Indonesian)
- Author: unauthored (crowd-sourced)
- Publication: English Wiktionary
- Date: undated (live page; accessed 2026-09-05)
- URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gemas
- Type: tertiary; neutral stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-05
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- Etymology: Indonesian gemas from Malay gemas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian **gəməs — a native, non-borrowed root. Cognates given: Javanese gemes, Mongondow gomot.
- Part of speech: adjective.
- Senses given: (1) "annoyed, irritated, frustrated" — example given of intense irritation at a child for constantly making messes; (2) "carried away from intense emotion (usually cute aggression), moved emotionally to do something physical" — glossed with the specific urge to squeeze something adorable.
- Comparative/superlative forms given (lebih gemas, paling gemas), confirming ordinary adjectival status rather than a specialized technical term.
- The entry itself cross-references gigil (this project's existing Tagalog word case study) as a similar term for the impulse to act physically from overwhelming emotion — Wiktionary's own editors draw the same cross-linguistic connection this project is independently investigating.
- No English-language section — confirms no English loanword adoption via Wiktionary.
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