pelangi
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Brunei Malay[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pelangi
- rainbow (multicoloured arch in the sky)
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- from pelang ("striped"), thus doublet of belang. [1]
- Apocope of pelangit, thus can be reconstructed as pe- + langit. [2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pelangi
- rainbow (multicoloured arch in the sky)
- Synonym: kuwung-kuwung
- (figuratively) colorful (diverse colors)
- (figuratively) colorful cloth or shawl
- (figuratively) colorful fish
Derived terms[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Noun[edit]
pelangi
- (zoology) Rainbow water snake (Enhydris enhydris)
- Synonyms: ular mengiang, ular pelangi
References[edit]
- ^ cf. "belang", "pelang" & "pelangi" in Wilkinson, Richard James (1901). A Malay-English Dictionary. London: Kelly & Walsh Limited. pp. 110, 466-467
- ^ Yus Badudu (2003) Kamus kata-kata serapan asing dalam bahasa Indonesia [Dictionary of foreign loanwords in Indonesian] (in Indonesian), →ISBN, page 26: “apokope /apokopé/, (Lat.Yun) Ling penghilangan bunyi pd akhir kata, msl pelangi (dr pelangit), presiden (dr president) ― apokope /apokopé/, (Lat.Gre) Ling ellision of sound at the end of a word, for example pelangi (from pelangit), presiden (from president)”
Further reading[edit]
- “pelangi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to pelang ("striped"), doublet of belang. [1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pelangi (Jawi spelling ڤلاڠي, plural pelangi-pelangi, informal 1st possessive pelangiku, 2nd possessive pelangimu, 3rd possessive pelanginya)
- rainbow (multicoloured arch in the sky)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Indonesian: pelangi
References[edit]
- ^ cf. "belang", "pelang" & "pelangi" in Wilkinson, Richard James (1901). A Malay-English Dictionary. London: Kelly & Walsh Limited. pp. 110, 466-467
Further reading[edit]
- “pelangi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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