ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*bakuŋ₁ a lily-like plant: Crinum asiaticum L.

PAN bakuŋ₁ a lily-like plant: Crinum asiaticum L. ⇫ ¶

Form.
Thao	fakun	Crinum asiaticum L., fam. Amaryllidaceae, a shore plant which grows in sandy soil and reaches a height of slightly over one meter; it has lanceolate leaves and a small fruit, and is distinguished by its white lily-like blossoms with six slender elongated petals
Amis	fakoŋ	name of an herb used on broken bones
WMP
Itbayaten	vakoŋ	Crinum asiaticum L., a plant similar to the lily with white flower and purple fruit. It is fragrant and said to repel mosquitoes
Ilokano	bákoŋ	Crinum asiaticum L. A stout, amaryllidaceous plant with large, fragrant white flowers, much cultivated for ornamental purposes
Tagalog	bakoŋ	spider lily, Crinum asiaticum L.
Hanunóo	bákuŋ	small upland plant with large white flowers and large round leaves
Cebuano	bákuŋ	kind of ornamental bulb, the spider lily: Crinum asiaticum
Maranao	bakoŋ	Crinum asiaticum L., a plant with white flower, used to treat stomach ache
Toba Batak	bahuŋ	kind of shrub
Iban	bakoŋ	plants of Amaryllis family growing on river banks, Crinum spp. (esp. Crinum asiaticum: also water lilies, Nymphaea spp., and probably Indian lotus, Nelumbium spp.
Malay	seperti sulur bakoŋ	'like the curve of the ', as a simile for suppliant hands
	bakoŋ	a bulbous plant grown for its big white ornamental flowers, Crinum asiaticum
Ngaju Dayak	bakoŋ	a water plant which grows on riverbanks and often right out into the river so that in stronger currents entire islands of them are flushed out. The stem is eaten; the long wide leaves are used as (torch material)
Buginese	bakuŋ	kind of flowering plant
Makassarese	bakuŋ	kind of lily, Crinum asiaticum
Sundanese	daun bakuŋ	generic for cactus-like plants
	bakuŋ	kind of lily with large white blossoms
	hui bakuŋ	kind of tuber
Old Javanese	wakuŋ	a lily-like flower, Crinum asiaticum. The petals are very slender; fingers are compared with them
Javanese	bakuŋ	a certain flower
Balinese	bakuŋ	lily
Sasak	bakoŋ	Crinum asiaticum, a plant with large white blossoms the petals of which are used as a standard of comparison for beautiful fingers
Malagasy	vahóna	generic for various plants of the genus Aloe, esp. A. macroclada Baker, and A. deltoideodonta Baker; also a species of Crinum
CMP
Rembong	waŋkuŋ	a plant: Crinum asiaticum L.
Manggarai	waŋkuŋ	a plant: Crinum asiaticum L.

Reconstructions

PAN

bakuŋ₁

a lily-like plant: Crinum…

Note

Also Old Javanese bakuŋ ‘a lily-like flower, Crinum asiaticum’. Merrill (1954:35) describes the Crinum asiaticum as a coarse, erect herbaceous plant in the amaryllis family, and states that ‘It prefers the sandy soil immediately inland from the beach line’. In view of this characterization it is somewhat surprising that a cognate is found in Thao, which is spoken around Sun-Moon Lake, at an elevation of nearly 1000 meters in the western foothills of the Central Mountains of Taiwan. There is evidence that Thao was spoken on Taiwan's Western Plain (Blust 1996), perhaps as recently as the 17th century, but even then it probably would not have been in contact with the sea. However, the Crinum asiaticum is reported from inland riverine environments in Indonesia as well (cf. reflexes in Ngaju Dayak and Iban). In any event Thao fakun was spontaneously offered as the name of the Crinum asiaticum when a color photograph of the latter was presented to Mr. Shih A-shan, and there can be little doubt about the botanical identification.