pulberi

Pulberi is a term used in Malay and Indonesian to denote a substance in powder form or a state of being powdered. Used as both a noun and an adjective, it describes materials ground into fine particles or products manufactured as powders. The sense emphasizes the physical form rather than the identity of the material.

In practice, pulberi appears across fields such as cooking, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and materials science, where powders are prepared for mixing, storage, or application. It encompasses a range of substances—from food ingredients like spices and sugars to chemical reagents and pigments—when described as powders rather than bulk solids.

Outside Malay-speaking contexts, pulberi is not widely used in English-language technical literature, and when encountered it is typically treated as a loanword or translated as "powder." The term may also appear in regional proper names or as part of compound terms in local languages, though such uses do not define the general meaning of the word.