ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*balaŋa shallow earthenware cooking pot or pan

PAN balaŋa shallow earthenware cooking pot or pan ⇫ ¶

Form.
Paiwan	valaŋa	a mortar
	valaŋa-laŋa	miniature mortar (for betel nut)
WMP
Yami	vahaŋa	soup bowl
Itbayaten	vaxaŋa	small clay plate for food (sweet potato, yam, rice, meat, etc.)
Kapampangan	balaŋáʔ	clay pot, used to cook viands
Tagalog	balaŋáʔ	wide-mouthed earthen cooking pot
Toba Batak	balaŋa	iron pan
Karo Batak	belaŋa	shallow iron pan in which one cooks sugar, fries meat, etc.
Iban	belaŋaʔ	wide-mouthed earthenware cooking pot
Malay	belaŋa	wide-mouthed cooking pot for cooking vegetables, curries, etc. -- not for boiling rice
Ngaju Dayak	balaŋa	sacred jar
Wolio	balaŋa	earthen cooking pot
Makassarese	balaŋa	earthen rice pot with small opening

POC palaŋa potsherd used as a frying pan ⇫ ¶

OC
Gedaged	palaŋ	potsherd, used to render fat and to cook oil; frying pan, shallow roaster

Reconstructions

PAN	balaŋa	shallow earthenware cooking…
POC	palaŋa	potsherd used as a frying pan

Note

Also Siraya vaŋara ‘mortar’, Paiwan valaŋa ‘mortar’, Buli palaŋa (expected **palaŋ) ‘kind of old pot in which one puts tree roots that are boiled to make a medicine’, Malagasy vilany ‘cooking vessel, pot, pan’ (expected **valany). Dempwolff (1934-38) reconstructed *baŋa, *balaŋa ‘vessel, receptacle’, basing the shorter variant entirely on the comparison of Tagalog baŋáʔ ‘low earthen water jar’ with trisyllables in the other languages examined. A number of the forms in island Southeast Asia may be Malay loans, but this cannot be true of Gedaged palaŋ, which confirms the antiquity of this word. For a useful and more detailed discussion of POc *palaŋa cf. Ross (1996).