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 [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

Javanese

Romanization

sulung

1. romanization of ꦱꦸꦭꦸꦁ

Kapampangan

Etymology

Cognate to Tagalog sulong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuluŋ/ [ˈsuː.lʊŋ]

Verb

súlung

1. to advance

Malay

Alternative forms

• sulong (1924-1972)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈsuloŋ/ [ˈsu.loŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uloŋ, -oŋ

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈsuluŋ/ [ˈsu.luŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uluŋ, -uŋ
• Hyphenation: su‧lung

Adjective

sulung (Jawi spelling سولوڠ, comparative lebih sulung, superlative paling sulung)

1. earliest; eldest

   Dia tu anak yang paling sulung. ― They are the eldest child.

Noun

sulung (Jawi spelling سولوڠ, plural sulung-sulung or sulung²)

1. ellipsis of anak sulung (“eldest, firstborn, born first in a family”)

   Yang sulung pergi ke dapur. ― The eldest went to the kitchen.

Derived terms

Compounds

• bahasa sulung
• buah sulung
• gigi sulung

Descendants

• > Indonesian: sulung (inherited)

Further reading

• "sulung" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "sulung" at PRPM first version)