pinang

From Malay pinang.

pinang (plural pinangs)

1. A palm of the genus Nenga, endemic to Southeast Asia.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 280:

     The best cattle were killed and the meat salted and sun-dried; and abundance of red peppers and sweet potatoes were gathered; and the tall pinang-trees were climbed for the spicy betel nut, the sirih-leaf was tied up in bundles, and every man filled his tobacco pouch and lime box to the brim, so that he might not want any of the materials for chewing the refreshing betel during the journey.

• Anping, naping, paning

From Malay pinang.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpinaŋ/ [ˈpi.naŋ]
• Rhymes: -inaŋ
• Syllabification: pi‧nang

pinang (plural pinang-pinang)

1. betelnut

pinang

1. to propose a girl or woman; to ask someone's hand (in marriage)

• “pinang”, 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

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (pinaṃ).

pinang (Jawi spelling ڤينڠ, plural pinang-pinang or pinang²)

1. betelnut

• Indonesian: pinang
• → English: pinang
• → Hokkien: 檳榔／槟榔 (pin-nn̂g)

• "pinang" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

pinang

1. cannonball

   Synonym: pitonang

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press