sulung

See also: Sulung

English

Alternative forms

• suling

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).

Noun

sulung (plural sulungs)

1. (historical) A unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
   • 2000, Nicholas Brooks, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400–1066, →ISBN, page 57:

     The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities.

Translations

unit of land

• Latin: solinus m

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsuluŋ/ [ˈsu.lʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -uluŋ
• Syllabification: su‧lung

Etymology 1

• Inherited from Malay sulung (“firstborn”).
• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦱꦸꦭꦸꦁ (sulung, “small flying ant which comes out at night”, literally “earliest; eldest”).

Noun

sulung (plural sulung-sulung)

1. firstborn, born first in a family
2. (uncountable, chiefly Christianity) firstfruit, firstfruits: an offering of the first of the harvest
3. (countable) small flying ant which comes out at night

Derived terms

• kesulungan

Related terms

• ulung

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Buginese [Term?].

Verb

sulung

1. to put firewood into the stove (so the fire burns bigger)

Further reading

• “sulung” 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

sulung

1. Romanization of ꦱꦸꦭꦸꦁ

Kapampangan

Etymology

Cognate to Tagalog sulong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuluŋ/ [ˈsuː.luŋ]

Verb

súlung

1. to advance