helang

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Malay helang (eagle). Originated from a comment made by the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris: "Kau jangan lupa helang dan pipit terbang tak sama tinggi" (You better not forget that the eagle and the pipit cannot fly on the same height).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun[edit]

helang (plural helangs)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Malaysia, derogatory, slang, politics) a corrupt politician or an elite person.

Bikol Central[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhelaŋ/, [ˈhe.l̪aŋ]
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔelaŋ/, [ˈʔe.l̪aŋ] (h-dropping)
  • Hyphenation: he‧lang

Noun[edit]

hélang (Basahan spelling ᜑᜒᜎᜅ᜔)

  1. Misspelling of hilang.

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Austroasiatic. Compare Bahnar klang, Pacoh calang, Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng), Mang laːŋ¹, Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] kalâng and Chong kʰlaːˀŋ. Doublet of elang and lang.

The second sense originated from a comment made by the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris: "Kau jangan lupa helang dan pipit terbang tak sama tinggi" (You better not forget that the eagle and the pipit cannot fly on the same height).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

helang (Jawi spelling هلڠ, plural helang-helang, informal 1st possessive helangku, 2nd possessive helangmu, 3rd possessive helangnya)

  1. eagle (Any of several large carnivorous birds in the family Accipitridae)
  2. (derogatory, slang, politics) a corrupt politician or an elite person.

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: helang

References[edit]

  1. ^ “'Helang, pipit terbang tak sama tinggi' - Media sosial kecoh hantaran TMJ”, in Malaysiakini[1] (in Malay), 6 June 2019, archived from the original on 2021-10-22
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “هلڠ hĕlang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 686
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “hĕlang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 403

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