Semang
noun
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
Semangs
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pluralof Semang.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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East of Bali, however, the Orang Binua re-appear, and here the type is that of the Semangs.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
In the case of the Semangs we have the kinless totemic belief and custom existing within a kinless society.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
Farther south are the Semangs of Kedah, with an average stature of four feet ten inches, and the Jakuns of Singapore, rising to five feet.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
