suling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːlɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sundanese suling. Compare with Acehnese suléng and Malay seruling.

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsuliŋ/ [ˈsu.lɪŋ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uliŋ
• Syllabification: su‧ling

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay suling (“fife, flageolet, pipe”). Cognate of Old Javanese suliṅ, Sundanese suling.

Noun

suling (plural suling-suling)

1. (music) suling: an Indonesian flute made of bamboo

   Synonyms: bangsi, seruling

2. steam whistle

Derived terms

Affixations

• menyuling
• seruling

Compounds

• suling balawung
• suling lokomotif
• suling tambur

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay suling (“to prepare or distil perfumes”).

Verb

suling (active menyuling, reflexive passive tersuling, ordinary passive disuling, imperative suling, emphatic-jussive sulinglah)

1. to distil

Derived terms

Affixations

• bersuling
• menyuling
• penyuling
• penyulingan
• sulingan

Etymology 3

Inherited from Malay suling (“to lower the head and raise the buttocks”), from Minangkabau [Term?].

Adjective

suling (comparative lebih suling, superlative paling suling)

1. inverted, upside down

   Synonyms: jungkir, tunggang

Derived terms

Affixations

• menyulingkan
• tersuling

Compounds

• suling daling
• suling paling

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Malay [Term?] (Belitung Malay)

Noun

suling (plural suling-suling)

1. temporary tombstone

Further reading

• “suling”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay seruling.

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /suliŋ/ [sʊˈliŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: su‧ling

Noun

suling (Sulat Sūg spelling سُلِڠْ)

1. flute, fife (traditionally made with bamboo)

Derived terms

• magsuling

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)