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  2. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    English loans are mostly related to trade, science and technology while Arabic loans are mostly religious as Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, the religion of the majority of Malay speakers. However, many key words such as surga/syurga (heaven) and the word for "religion" itself (agama) have origins in Sanskrit.

  3. List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia

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    The common Malay word for bamboo is buluh, though the root word mambu may have originated as a corruption of the Malay word semambu, a type of rattan used to make the walking stick variously referred to as Malacca cane or bamboo cane in English. [12] Banteng from Malay banteng, derived from Javanese banáš­éng.

  4. Talk:List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    As for the word lancar, it is well-known as a word borrowed by Portuguese from Malay word "lancaran" ("lancar" - means 'swift' + "-an") as follows: "Lancar" means "swift" or "fast", whereas "lancaran" (lancar + "-an" suffix) means "a kind of swift/fast boat (perahu)". Both words have existed at least before the influence of Portuguese words as ...

  5. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    List of English words of Brittonic origin; Lists of English words of Celtic origin; List of English words of Chinese origin; List of English words of Czech origin; List of English words of Dravidian origin (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) List of English words of Dutch origin. List of English words of Afrikaans origin; List of South African ...

  6. Malay trade and creole languages - Wikipedia

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    The Sula Malay is heavily influenced by other languages, This can be found in loan words originating from Ambonese Malay and Dutch language can be found in Sula Malay. Some contraction vocabulary can also be found in this language, as is the case in North Moluccan Malay (Ternate Malay).

  7. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

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    Tamil mainly entered the lexicon of Classical Malay (and by extension, its modern Malaysian and Indonesian standard variants) with the immigration of South Indian traders and labourers who settled around the Strait of Malacca. Henceforth, loanwords from Tamil, while also an Indian language (though not Indo-European like Sanskrit), mainly exist ...

  8. Could Retirees See Social Security Benefits Cut Under Trump?

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    Social Security is the U.S. government's biggest program; as of June 30, 2024, about 67.9 million people, or one in five Americans, collected Social Security benefits. This year, we're seeing a...

  9. Comparison of Indonesian and Standard Malay - Wikipedia

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    The relatively large share of Islamic (Arabic or Persian) loan words shared by Malaysian Malay and Indonesian often poses no difficulty in comprehension and usage, although some forms may have developed a (slightly) different meaning or have become obsolete either in Malaysian Malay or in Indonesian, e.g. khidmat, wakil. [citation needed]