kalong
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong).
Noun edit
kalong (plural kalongs)
- A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus).
Alternative forms edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kalong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.
Noun edit
kalong (plural kalong-kalong, first-person possessive kalongku, second-person possessive kalongmu, third-person possessive kalongnya)
- megabat (animal)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kalong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
kalong
- Romanization of ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ