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This is a partial list of loanwords in English language, that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Malay language.Many of the words are decisively Malay or shared with other Malayic languages group, while others obviously entered Malay both from related Austronesian languages and unrelated languages of India and China.
The word is used to signify a proverbial metaphor or simile, [21] a type of figure of speech commonly found in traditional pantun or proverbs from classical Malay literature. [22] The archaic meaning of pantun in Malay language also refers to a form of proverb used for indirect references, [23] which has similar role to pantun as poetry, that ...
English loans are mostly related to trade, science and technology while Arabic loans are mostly religious as Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, the religion of the majority of Malay speakers. However, many key words such as surga/syurga (heaven) and the word for "religion" itself (agama) have origins in Sanskrit.
Derived from a Malay term meaning 'sugar' (although the Malay word for sugar is actually gula), which may have been derived from Hindi 'sakar' or 'Sakkar' meaning 'sugar' and 'sweet words', and ultimately from Persian 'shakar' meaning 'sugar', 'sweet'. saman – (From Malay) Used for traffic summons. Derived from the English word summons.
While English is widely used, many Malay words have become part of common usage in informal English or Manglish. An example is suffixing sentences with lah , as in, "Don't be so worried-lah", which is usually used to present a sentence as rather light-going and not so serious; the suffix has no specific meaning.
Pantun – Malay poem that usually consists of four lines in each stanza. The first two lines are hints and the rest contains meaning. Syair – Malay poem that usually consists of four lines with the same sound at the end of each stanza. [19] Gurindam – pantun that consists of two lines that contain advice or teaching.
A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:
In other languages and cultures, the definition of "proverb" also differs from English. [24] In the Chumburung language of Ghana, "aŋase are literal proverbs and akpare are metaphoric ones". [25] Among the Bini of Nigeria, there are three words that are used to translate "proverb": ere, ivbe, and itan.