kalang

kalang (plural kalangs)

1. Alternative form of kalong.

kalang

1. crab

“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkalaŋ/ [ˈka.laŋ]
• Rhymes: -alaŋ
• Syllabification: ka‧lang
• Homophone: Kalang

Inherited from Malay kalang.

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. underlayer
2. support
3. bracket, prop, stay
4. buttress

• kelang

Borrowed from Javanese kalang (“arena, circle; realm”), from Old Javanese kalaṅ (“circle, territory”).

kalang

1. alternative form of kalangan

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. flatter and yellowish catfish

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?].

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. (dialect Minang) elongated mounds of soil as a growing medium for vegetables

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. blackish brown horse

Borrowed from Ngaju [Term?] and Malay [Term?] (Riau Islands).

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. (dialect Ngaju) large fish trap with a diameter of more than one meter, elongated cylindrical in shape, made of woven bamboo or rattan, used as a trap for large fish
2. (dialect Riau Islands) a large, round basket made of woven rattan to hold fish, snails and other sea catches

Borrowed from Javanese kalang (“royal woodworker group”), from Old Javanese kalaṅ (“a group of people with a special occupation”).

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. nomad, wanderer [since 2024]

Borrowed from Bulgarian [Term?].

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. (nautical) wood or iron installed at an angle to support and strengthen the mast on a boat or ship

Borrowed from Sindhi [Term?].

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. (dialect Sunda) round or square game boundary lines

Borrowed from Berau Malay [Term?].

kalang (plural kalang-kalang)

1. (dialect Berau) lines of the hand

• “kalang”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈlaŋ/, [ka.ˈlaŋ]

kalang

1. crab

Said to be from Spanish calar (“to pierce with a sharp instrument”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkalaŋ/ [ˈkaː.lɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -alaŋ
• Syllabification: ka‧lang

kalang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜅ᜔)

1. wedge

   Synonyms: kalso, katang, pasak

2. (figurative, obsolete) sustenance
3. (figurative, obsolete) suffering for someone else's wrongdoings

• “kalang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[2] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[3] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 135: “Calçar) Calang (pp) la meſa que ſe anda poniendo le algo de bajo del pie que cojea”
  • page 152: “Caſtigar) Calang (pp) aeſte teniendo aquel la culpa, metaf) de calang que es lo conque calçan algo porque al q̃ caſtingan ſin culpa le ponen como por calça o cuña al que la tiene, para que no ſe a caſtigado, pues yalo fue el otro”
  • page 210: “Cuña) Calang (pp) con que calçan meſa o vanco que ſe ban bolea”
  • page 459: “Pagar) Calang (pp) juſtos por pecadores que deçimos”

• angkla, langka

kalang

1. dead coral grit

• makalang

kalang

1. to sing