suling

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sundanese ᮞᮥᮜᮤᮀ (suling). Compare with Acehnese suléng and Malay seruling.

Noun

suling (plural sulings)

  1. (music) An Indonesian flute made of bamboo.
    • 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
      She attributes the initial idea to her husband, who suggested combining the kecapi with suling in 1960, shortly after their move to the kabupaten Sidenreng-Rappang (Sidrap), where he had been assigned as district head (Ind. bupati).
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Etymology 2

Noun

suling (plural sulings)

  1. Alternative form of sulung

Anagrams

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

suling

  1. suling

Further reading

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay seruling.

Pronunciation

  • (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA(key): /suliŋ/
  • Rhymes: -iŋ
  • Syllabification: su‧ling

Noun

suling (Sulat Sūg spelling سُلِڠْ)

  1. flute, fife (traditionally made with bamboo)

Derived terms

See also

Ternate

suling

Etymology

From Indonesian suling.

Pronunciation

Noun

suling

  1. the suling flute

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yakan

Noun

suling

  1. fipple flute (made of a thin kind of bamboo kānas with a whistle mouth-piece and six holes in a row)