kantan

See also: kāntàn and kán-tan

Japanese

Romanization

kantan

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かんたん

Malay

Etymology

From a kramaization of *kala (compare with Iban chekala and Acehnese kala) – comparable to jintan from *jira and santan from sari.[1]

Noun

kantan (Jawi spelling کنتن, plural kantan-kantan or kantan2)

  1. torch ginger

References

  1. ^ Hoogervorst, Tom (2016), “Lexical influence from North India to Maritime Southeast Asia; Some new directions”, in Man in India, volume 95, number 4, pages 298-301
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