dilah.
lamp; lantern
Meaning & usage
lamp; lantern
language
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay dilah, Proto-Malayic *dilah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq (“tongue”) (compare to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilat, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilap (“to lick”)), from Proto-Austronesian *dilaq (“to lick”). Doublet of jilat and lidah. Semantic loan from Javanese ꦢꦶꦭꦃ (dilah) for "lamp" sense.
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