samir.
rough sheets of palm fronds stitched together to make a temporary roofing.
Meaning & usage
rough sheets of palm fronds stitched together to make a temporary roofing.
a round banana leaf folded into a shallow inverted cone and used for covering foods
walls made of palm leaves, joined together with areca nut stems
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay samir (“the natural undried leaves of the nipah”). Semantic loan from Berau Malay [Term?] for the wall sense.
yellow silk sarong
sash
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese samir (“velvet (silk) approximately the width of the palm of the hand, folded thickly at the base using strands (used as necklaces by palace servants); front edge of kebaya”), from Old Javanese samir (“curtain, cloth cover”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.