suling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sundanese ᮞᮥᮜᮤᮀ (suling). Compare with Acehnese suléng.

Noun

suling (plural sulings)

1. (music) An Indonesian flute made of bamboo.
   • 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 55:

     She attributes the initial idea to her husband, who suggested combining the kecapi with suling in 1960, shortly after their move to the kabupaten Sidenreng-Rappang (Sidrap), where he had been assigned as district head (Ind. bupati).

See also

• kecapi
• kecapi suling

Etymology 2

Noun

suling (plural sulings)

1. Alternative form of sulung

Anagrams

• lungis, sluing

Tausug

Noun

suling

1. flute, fife (traditionally made with bamboo)

See also

• sawnay

Ternate

suling

Etymology

From Indonesian suling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu.liŋ]

Noun

suling

1. the suling flute

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yakan

Noun

suling

1. fipple flute (made of a thin kind of bamboo kānas with a whistle mouth-piece and six holes in a row)