parang
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parang
Borrowed into English from Malay around 1850–55
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That sam smith and kelly clarkson collab of breakaway 🥺 parang bagay din kay ate 🥰
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Growing up in Trinidad to a musical family, Etienne Charles was exposed to three song traditions around Christmastime: the singing of church hymns, calypsos and parang, Venezuelan folk songs about the nativity sung in Spanish.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019
We hired a guide who led us up and down a sodden trail, a foot-long blade called a parang hanging from a scabbard at his hip.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2014
The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang.
From Time Magazine Archive
The parang, or chopper, or cutlass, is always carried by a Malay, being used for all kinds of work, agricultural and other, and is also a useful weapon of offence or defence.
From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher
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