galang.
girder, prop, support, transverse bar, underlayer
Meaning & usage
girder, prop, support, transverse bar, underlayer
pile of unused wood
wood that connects the poles in the box where the stove is placed
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay galang (“a bar or roller laid at wart the path; thwarting or crossing; crossbeam”). Semantic loan from Javanese ꦒꦭꦁ (galang, “wooden framework, slipway, dock; to impound (wandering stock)”)
to impede; to bar, to barrier
to catch wild animals with sharpened sticks
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay galang (“a bar or roller laid at wart the path; thwarting or crossing; crossbeam”). Semantic loan from Javanese ꦒꦭꦁ (galang, “wooden framework, slipway, dock; to impound (wandering stock)”)
dike
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Old Javanese galĕṅ (“small dike enclosing irrigated fields”)
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