jung.
junk: a Chinese sailing vessel
Meaning & usage
junk: a Chinese sailing vessel
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay jong, from possibly either: * Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong, “ship”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”) * Hokkien 船 (chûn, “ship; watercraft; vessel”) or Teochew 船 (zung⁵, “ship; watercraft; vessel”) See also cunia.
a unit of land area measurement equals 28,386 m² or four bau
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