kalong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong).

Noun

kalong (plural kalongs)

1. A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus).

Alternative forms

• kalang

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.

Noun

kalong (plural kalong-kalong, first-person possessive kalongku, second-person possessive kalongmu, third-person possessive kalongnya)

1. megabat (animal)

Related terms

• kelelawar

Further reading

• “kalong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

kalong

1. Romanization of ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ