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1. adat, n. View full entry 1783
...In the Islamic regions of South-East Asia: custom, accepted practice; (also) customary law....
2. Dusun, n. and adj. View full entry 1783
...doosoon, dusun. In Malaysia, a village or settlement; (an area of) cultivated land....
3. gomuti, n. View full entry 1811
...A palm tree, Arenga pinnata, native to Malaya and the East Indies, and cultivated elsewhere, particularly in India; also, the fibre obtained from this tree....
4. kain, n. View full entry 1783
...Cloth, a piece of cloth. Usu. with defining word following (see quots.)....
5. kidang, n. View full entry 1783
...The Malay name for the Indian muntjac or barking deer, Muntiacus muntjak....
6. kleywang, n. View full entry 1783
...A single-edged Indonesian sword....
7. koyan, n. View full entry 1783
...In Malaysia, a unit of weight equal to 40 piculs, equivalent to approximately 5,330 lb. (2·42 tonnes)....
8. kramat, n. View full entry 1783
...A Muslim holy place or place of pilgrimage (see also quot. 1833). Also as , sacred....
9. ladang, n. View full entry 1783
...A piece of land under dry cultivation, often a jungle clearing. Also attrib....
10. langsat, n. View full entry 1783
...The edible fruit of Lansium domesticum, a tree of the family Meliaceæ, native to Indonesia and Malaysia; also, the tree itself....
11. meranti, n. View full entry 1783
...The hardwood timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to Malaysia, Sarawak, and Indonesia; any of these trees. Cf. seraya...
12. merbau, n. View full entry 1783
...The hardwood timber obtained from either of two trees of the genus Intsia (family Caesalpiniaceae (Leguminosae)), I. palembanica and (in full merbau ipil...
13. Minangkabau, adj. and n. View full entry 1783
...Of or relating to a people inhabiting the highlands of Sumatra in Indonesia....
14. mukim, n. View full entry 1811
...In Malaysia and Indonesia: the smallest administrative district; an area served by its own mosque, usually consisting of or spanning a number of villages....
15. musang, n. View full entry 1783
...A palm civet of the Asian genus Paradoxurus; esp. the toddy cat, P. hermaphroditus....
16. pantun, n. View full entry 1783
...A Malay verse form consisting of quatrains with an ‘abab’ rhyme scheme in which the meaning of the first couplet usually makes only indirect allusion to that of the second couplet, and...
17. rambai, n. View full entry 1811
...The small edible oval fruit of the Malesian tree Baccaurea motleyana (family Euphorbiaceae), having white flesh and pale brown seeds in a smooth brownish-yellow skin; (also) the tree...
18. ranjau, n. View full entry 1783
...In Malaysia and Indonesia: a sharp bamboo or iron stake or caltrop placed point upwards in the ground to hinder or injure an enemy or hunted animal....
19. rusa, n. View full entry 1783
...Any of a group of large Asian deer of the genus or subgenus Rusa, having large antlers characterized by a brow tine but no median tine; esp. the...
20. sawah, n. View full entry 1783
...In Malaysia and Indonesia: an irrigated rice-field....
