alang

alang

1. Pronunciation spelling of along.

• Galan, Lagan, Ngala, lagan

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlaŋ/

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• Hyphenation: a‧lang

aláng (plural aralang, Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. (Naga) dry; arid

   Synonym: mara

   Antonyms: basa, dumog

aláng (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. dried fish

   Synonym: tuyo

Compare alang-alang, and Tagalog alang-alang (“regards”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalaŋ/
• Hyphenation: a‧lang

álang (Badlit spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)

1. (formal) for (the sake of)

   Synonym: para

   alang sa nasod ― for the country

   alang sa Ginoo ― for God

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.laŋ/,
• Hyphenation: alang

Inherited from Malay alang, from Classical Malay الڠ (alang), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Doublet of halang.

alang (plural alang-alang, first-person possessive alangku, second-person possessive alangmu, third-person possessive alangnya)

1. crossbeam, bar going across.
2. room divider

   Synonym: sekat

alang

1. middle

   Synonym: sedang

2. middle, moderate

   Synonym: tengah

3. half-baked, incomplete

   Synonyms: tanggung, setengah-setengah

Borrowed from Minangkabau alang.

alang (first-person possessive alangku, second-person possessive alangmu, third-person possessive alangnya)

1. gift

   Synonyms: hadiah, pemberian

Borrowed from Acehnese .

alang (first-person possessive alangku, second-person possessive alangmu, third-person possessive alangnya)

1. long neck bottle.

Borrowed from Sasak . Cognate of Karao alang.

alang (first-person possessive alangku, second-person possessive alangmu, third-person possessive alangnya)

1. granary

   Synonym: lumbung

• “alang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

alang

1. Romanization of ꦲꦭꦁ

alang

1. rice granary

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alaŋ-alaŋ (“insufficient, half-heartedly”).

• IPA^(key): /alaŋ/
• Rhymes: -alaŋ, -laŋ, -aŋ

alang (plural alang-alang, informal 1st possessive alangku, 2nd possessive alangmu, 3rd possessive alangnya)

1. a form of address for the third child.
2. (colloquial) a form of address for a sibling that is neither the eldest nor the youngest.

alang

1. medium; half-and-half
2. little (of account)

• “alang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

aláng

1. early

alang

1. along

alang (comparative further, superlative furthest)

1. along

From ala- +‎ -ng.

alang

1. trough, hollow, depression
2. lowland

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “впадина, низина, понижение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika