The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Value buah
- Language:
- Malay
- Parameter:
- fruit; fruit-like (rounded) object. A descriptive term for (i) all fruits, (ii) 'fruit' in the special sense of the areca nut (cf. e.g. 'receptacle for areca nut in a -set'), (iii) stony fruit used for special purposes, e.g. candle-nuts used as playing-marbles, (iv) articles resembling definite kinds of fruit, e.g. (fruit of Zizyphus jujuba; a bead suggesting that fruit; a sweetmeat suggesting that fruit, (v) adolescent girls regarded as fruit ripe for the plucking, (vi) the fruit-like (i.e. rounded) portion of anything, e.g. 'calf of the leg', 'testicle', 'buttock', 'kidney', (vii) miscellaneous rounded objects such as studs, buttons, chessmen, etc., (viii) generally, as a numeral coefficient for all rounded objects such as stones, books, watches, boxes, plates, bowls, baskets, eggs, teeth, shields, doors, buildings, villages, towns, countries, hills, mountains, caves and lakes; and also for lamentations [f70ff862fa797aa2144bc71f519028fc]
- References
- Wilkinson 1959