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English
Etymology
From Malay padang.
Noun
padang (plural padangs)
- Malaysian grassland
Anagrams
Acehnese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- field; plain
Balinese
Noun
padang
- Romanization of ᬧᬤᬂ
Bau Bidayuh
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
Hanunoo
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpadaŋ/
- Rhymes: -adaŋ
- Syllabification: pa‧dang
Noun
padang (Hanunoo spelling ᜩᜧᜥ᜴)
- a short, small-leaved cogon grass, Imperata sp.
See also
Further reading
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 202
Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- field; meadow
- large space covered with one kind of vegetation
- freshwater swamp, usually flooded and supporting few plants
Derived terms
Ida'an
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- coarse grass
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay ڤادڠ (padang, “field”), from Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Pronunciation
Noun
padang (plural padang-padang, first-person possessive padangku, second-person possessive padangmu, third-person possessive padangnya)
- field
Derived terms
Further reading
Karo Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)
- kind of grass, Pogonatherum panicum Hack.
Kelabit
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Pronunciation
Noun
padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ, plural padang-padang, informal 1st possessive padangku, 2nd possessive padangmu, 3rd possessive padangnya)
- field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
Descendants
Further reading
Mandar
Etymology
From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang (Lontara spelling ᨄᨉᨂ)
- sword grass, Imperata cylindrica
- vegetation that resembles the stem of the rice plants, sword grass, very hard to eradicate except by digging up the roots.
Minangkabau
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ)
- field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
Mongondow
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- cane grass, Imperata cylindrica
Ngaju
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- a large treeless plain overgrown with sword grass (Imperata cylindrica).
Tae'
Etymology
From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang
- earth, ground
- field
- kind of grass with sharp, needle-like leaves, when young it creeps along the ground with long tendrils
Toba Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).
Noun
padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)
- grass
- grassland; plain