lonceng

Inherited from Malay lonceng from Hokkien 亂鐘／乱钟 (loān-cheng, “alarm clock”), see 亂鐘仔／乱钟仔 (loān-cheng-á, “alarm clock”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔnt͡ʃɛŋ]
• Hyphenation: lon‧cèng

loncèng (plural lonceng-lonceng)

1. bell

   Synonyms: bel, genta

2. clock

   Synonym: jam dinding

• loceng (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “lonceng”, 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

Borrowed from Hokkien 亂鐘／乱钟 (loān-cheng, “alarm clock”), see 亂鐘仔／乱钟仔 (loān-cheng-á, “alarm clock”). Doublet of loceng.

lonceng (plural lonceng-lonceng or lonceng²)

1. (rare) bell

   Synonym: loceng

   Near-synonym: (larger types in churches, clock towers etc) genta

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “loncheng”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 68-9