kalong
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong).
Noun
[edit]kalong (plural kalongs)
- A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus).
Alternative forms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kalong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay kalong, from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.
Noun
[edit]kalong (plural kalong-kalong, first-person possessive kalongku, second-person possessive kalongmu, third-person possessive kalongnya)
- megabat (animal)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kalong” 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.
Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]kalong
- Romanization of ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kalong (Jawi spelling کالوڠ)
- (Batavian Malay) A fruit bat or megabat.
- Synonym: keluang
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Indonesian: kalong
Further reading
[edit]- “kalong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James), 1867-1941 (1901) A Malay-English dictionary[1], Kelly & Walsh Ltd, retrieved 5 November 2024, page 497
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