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

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

From Project Gutenberg

Then the medicine women are whirled round in the cone, and one by one they fall into a faint, to be recovered by fanning with the pinang blossom.

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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.

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

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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.

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