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Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong).

kalong (plural kalongs)

1. A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus).

• kalang

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kalong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Inherited from Malay kalong, from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.

kalong (plural)

1. megabat (animal)

• kelelawar

• “kalong” 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.

kalong

1. Romanization of ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong). Doublet of keluang.

• IPA^(key): [ka.loŋ]
• Rhymes: -loŋ, -oŋ
• Hyphenation: ka‧long

kalong (Jawi spelling کالوڠ)

1. (Batavian Malay) A fruit bat or megabat.

   Synonym: keluang

• Indonesian: kalong

• “kalong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James), 1867-1941 (1901) A Malay-English dictionary‎^[1], Kelly & Walsh Ltd, retrieved 5 November 2024, page 497