The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

*biluk to wind, curve, turn to the side; to tack, sail into the wind

PMP biluk to wind, curve, turn to the side; to tack, sail into the wind

WMP
Maranao bilok sail oblique to direction of wind
Mansaka bilok sail into the wind; to tack
Sangir biluʔ crooked, askew, bent (as a plank)
Iban bilok turn (as a rudder); crooked, unjust, unfair
Malay bélok to veer; turn back; to wheel; (nautical) to go about; to luff up; to travel to windward. Of desertion to the enemy; of wheeling one's horse to right and left; of diverting a water-runnel; of a turn of the road, of getting round the skirts of a hill
Mentawai bilu cape; bend in a river; circumnavigate a cape or a bend in the river
Ngaju Dayak biluk sail into the wind
Bare'e mom-bilu bend around, suddenly turn, as a horse that all at once turns onto a side path
ma-wilu curved, bent, curled up, as the edge of a flat piece of metal, for example the blade of a knife
Mandar biluʔ turn (change course at sea when sailing to take advantage of the direction of the wind)
Buginese biluʔ to turn (as a boat encountering headwinds)
Makassarese biluʔ to luff, sail with the wind; swerve to left or right (of a kite)
aʔ-biluʔ steer a car, turn a car to left or right
Javanese biluk turn (to left or right), veer
Balinese biluk swing about, turn
Sasak biluk make an about turn (as an animal in plowing a field)

POC piluk₂ curly, to curl

OC
'Āre'āre hiru curly, of hair; to wind (round)
Sa'a mwaa hilu-hilu zigzag in tattoo, a canoe decoration
hilu-hilu zig-zag
Arosi hiru flow in a circle; an eddy; be curly, of the hair
Mota pilug curled (as the tail of a pig)
pilu curled