merang

Borrowed from Betawi [Term?], from Javanese ꦩꦼꦫꦁ (merang, “dried rice straw; rice chaff”), from Old Javanese mĕraṅ, mraṅ (“chaff of rice, rice-straw”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krɔŋ (“hard”) (compare Khmer ក្រាំង (krang, “to dry off”), Thai กรัง (grang, “to dry off”)).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /məˈraŋ/ [məˈraŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: me‧rang

merang (plural merang-merang)

1. rice-stubble
2. the yellow color is like the color of dried rice stalks

Borrowed from Blagar [Term?].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmeraŋ/ [ˈme.raŋ]
• Rhymes: -eraŋ
• Syllabification: me‧rang

merang (plural merang-merang)

1. a small hut in the garden that serves as a place to keep watch

• “merang” 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.

Compare the intransitive verb oumerang (“to believe, to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛɾaŋ/

merang

1. (stative) to be real, to be true

• oumerang (“to believe, to trust”)

• merang in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• merang in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• merang in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 189.