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  pinang

  noun

  the betel palm or its nut.
• Pinang
  Pinang

  noun

  Penang.

pinang

¹ American  

[pi-nang] / pɪˈnæŋ /

noun

1. the betel palm or its nut.

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Pinang ² American  

[pi-nang, -nahng] / pɪˈnæŋ, -ˈnɑŋ /

noun

1. Penang.

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Etymology

Origin of pinang

Borrowed into English from Malay around 1655–65

Example Sentences

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pinang Pinang

Mr Hooker, when he saw them, said they were the pinang, or betel-nut palm—Areca catechu.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles

These laws are called huhum pinang àn,—from depang àn, to eat—law or sentence to eat.

From John Rutherford, the White Chief by Craik, George Lillie

All the preparation consists in spreading on the sirih leaf a small quantity of the chunam and folding it up with a slice of the pinang nut.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

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 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)

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 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)

The resort on Pinang Island later reported to the agency that the boat with 10 passengers had safely arrived, but the boat that had left earlier had not been seen.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

The ferry was carrying about 74 people to the small island of Tanjung Pinang near neighbouring Singapore when it is suspected to have hit a log about 30 minutes after it set sail, officials said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2023

Just months earlier, an almost identical aircraft operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air had crashed into the Java Sea on what should have been a routine flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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

Soap is manufactured at Pondicherry from this oil, but it is not seemingly in repute; the attempt has not been made in Pinang with a view to a market.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.