alang

alang

1. Pronunciation spelling of along.

• Galan, Lagan, Ngala, lagan

From Proto-Central Naga *laŋ.

alang

1. (Chungli) to cut

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /a˥.laŋ˩/, [a˥.laŋ˩]

alang

1. (Chungli) to fall down, fall over

   ali nung alang

   fell to the ground

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California, pages 98, 243
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 12
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, pages 108, 118

Compare alang-alang, and Tagalog alang-alang (“regards”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalaŋ/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐŋ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lang

álang (Badlit spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. (formal) for (the sake of)

   Synonym: para

   alang sa nasod ― for the country

   alang sa Ginoo ― for God

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlaŋ/ [ʔaˈl̪aŋ]

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• Hyphenation: a‧lang

aláng (plural aralang, Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. (Naga) dry; arid

   Synonym: mara

   Antonyms: basa, dumog

aláng (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. dried fish

   Synonym: tuyo

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈalaŋ/ [ˈa.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -alaŋ
• Syllabification: a‧lang

Inherited from Malay alang, from Classical Malay الڠ (alang), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Doublet of halang.

alang (plural alang-alang)

1. crossbeam, bar going across
2. room divider

   Synonym: sekat

alang (comparative lebih alang, superlative paling alang)

1. middle

   Synonym: sedang

2. middle, moderate

   Synonym: tengah

3. half-baked, incomplete

   Synonyms: tanggung, setengah-setengah

Borrowed from Minangkabau alang.

alang (plural alang-alang)

1. gift

   Synonyms: hadiah, pemberian

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

alang (plural alang-alang)

1. long neck bottle

Borrowed from Sasak [Term?] and Sumbawa [Term?]. Cognate of Karao alang.

alang (plural alang-alang)

1. (dialect Sasak) granary

   Synonym: lumbung

2. (dialect Sumbawa) an attic in a stilt house used for storing goods or harvested crops

Borrowed from Sumbawa [Term?].

alang (plural alang-alang)

1. unstitched woven fabric

Borrowed from Berau Malay [Term?].

alang

1. to hover by spreading wings while observing prey (eagle)

• “alang”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

alang

1. romanization of ꦲꦭꦁ

alang

1. rice granary

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alaŋ-alaŋ (“insufficient, half-heartedly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalaŋ/ [ˈa.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -alaŋ, -laŋ, -aŋ
• Hyphenation: a‧lang

alang (plural alang-alang or alang²)

1. a form of address for the third child.
2. (colloquial) a form of address for a sibling that is neither the eldest nor the youngest.

alang (comparative lebih alang, superlative paling alang)

1. medium; half-and-half
2. little (of account)

• "alang" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

aláng

1. early

alang

1. along

alang (comparative further, superlative furthest)

1. along

From ala- +‎ -ng.

alang

1. trough, hollow, depression
2. lowland

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “впадина, низина, понижение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika