kukang
English edit
Noun edit
kukang (plural kukangs)
- (archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.
- 1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:
- Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.
- 1895, The Black Cat, volume 1, page 37:
- […] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
kukang (plural kukang-kukang, first-person possessive kukangku, second-person possessive kukangmu, third-person possessive kukangnya)
- Nonstandard form of kungkang (“slow loris”).
Polish edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kukang m animal
- slow loris (any primate of the genus Nycticebus)
Declension edit
Declension of kukang
Further reading edit
- kukang in Polish dictionaries at PWN