pinang
noun
the betel palm or its nut.
pinang
1 American
[pi-nang]
/ pɪˈnæŋ /
noun
Pinang
2
American
[pi-nang, -nahng]
/ pɪˈnæŋ, -ˈnɑŋ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of pinang
Borrowed into English from Malay around 1655–65
Example Sentences
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One of the women goes to the patient, who, clad in black, sits alone on a mat, and brings her a pinang blossom to hold, covering her head with a cloth.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
Rice is thrown on her and she is fanned with the pinang blossoms, but the women who attend to her only share her fate and also become senseless.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
The South Americans chew the cocoa and mambee, and the eastern people the betel and areca, or, as they are called in the Malay language, sirih and pinang.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
Mr Hooker, when he saw them, said they were the pinang, or betel-nut palm—Areca catechu.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
These laws are called huhum pinang àn,—from depang àn, to eat—law or sentence to eat.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
The resort on Pinang Island later reported to the agency that the boat with 10 passengers had safely arrived later on Sunday night, but the boat that had left earlier had not been seen.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
The following morning, PK-LQP, operating as Lion Air flight 610, took off at 6:20AM local time on its way to Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia.
From The Verge ● May 2, 2019
Contact with the jet was lost 13 minutes after it took off from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2018
The plane was set to travel to the small city of Pangkal Pinang, the provincial capital of a small island in the Java Sea.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
Of the clove trees in Pinang there were then only 29,812 in bearing, leaving 75,767 in that settlement alone to come to maturity; estimated to yield about 300,000 lbs.
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