puput.
reed-whistle (a flute-like wind instrument (made from rice stalks/ coconut palm leaves, etc.))
Meaning & usage
reed-whistle (a flute-like wind instrument (made from rice stalks/ coconut palm leaves, etc.))
flute
whistle
the traditional tin smelting method on Bangka Island is carried out by sprinkling tin sand little by little into a furnace in the form of a hole in the ground filled with coals. The coals are kept burning by blowing air through a hollowed-out log so that it resembles a pipe.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay puput, from Minangkabau [Term?].
crowbar
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay puput, from Betawi [Term?] (“crowbar”), from Javanese puput (“right to the end, to come to an end, be over; the falling off of an infant's umbilical cord”), from Old Javanese puput (“end, result; culmination, summit; ending, ended, finished; highest”).
to (come to an) end
to fall off (of infant's umbilical cord).
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay puput, from Betawi [Term?] (“crowbar”), from Javanese puput (“right to the end, to come to an end, be over; the falling off of an infant's umbilical cord”), from Old Javanese puput (“end, result; culmination, summit; ending, ended, finished; highest”).
Javan ilisha (Ilisha pristigastroides)
Where this word comes from
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