The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Words for dark in Sentah Land Dayak

karum

Roots
*-lem₁
PAN
PAN qiSlem dark color
kelem dark
Form.
Thao di<sh>lum green/blue
Pazeh ma-rarem have poor sight (because of age, etc.)
Puyuma d-em-a-durem pitch dark
Paiwan velʸelem cloud shadows; overcast
sulem darkness, twilight
selem the dark, the World of the Dead
PWMP
PWMP gelem gloomy, dark
tilem dark, black
m-alem night
selem dark
silem fade from sight; gloom, obscurity
WMP
Agta (Central Cagayan) hiklem night
Gaddang dulem cloud
Casiguran Dumagat dikləm raincloud; dark, blurry, cloudy
Ilokano lúlem overcast, clouded over, gloomy, darkish
Cebuano kilum-kiflum dusk (< *?)
Maranao delem moonless, night which is dark, black
salem darkening, as of the sun
Manobo (Western Bukidnon) halem be silhouetted, be only an indistinct shadow
dukilem become night
Kelabit milem purple, color of a bruise
Toba Batak lomlom dark, black
Malay belam-belam dusk; twilight; indistinctness
balam dimly seen
Singhi Land Dayak ŋarom night
Sentah Land Dayak karum dark
Ngaju Dayak bilem black
Old Javanese ulem shining (only) palely, dim, wan, languishing, faded
Balinese gulem cloud
kulem night, dark
tilem last day of the moon, new moon
Bikol sulóm dark, obscure, as a house without lights
ílom describing someone with dark brown skin
CMP
Manggarai lem new moon