padang

From Malay padang.

padang (plural padangs)

1. Malaysian grassland

• padnag

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. field; plain

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang (Balinese script ᬧᬤᬂ)

1. grass; herb
2. (in extension) plant

padang (Balinese script ᬧᬤᬂ)

1. clear (of land)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.dɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -adaŋ
• Syllabification: pa‧dang

padang (Hanunoo spelling ᜩᜧᜥ᜴)

1. a short, small-leaved cogon grass, Imperata sp.

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 202

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. field; meadow
2. large space covered with one kind of vegetation
3. freshwater swamp, usually flooded and supporting few plants

• padang bilun (“airport”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. coarse grass

Inherited from Malay ڤادڠ (padang, “field”), from Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.daŋ]
• Rhymes: -adaŋ
• Syllabification: pa‧dang

padang (plural padang-padang)

1. field

• “padang” 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)

1. kind of grass, Pogonatherum panicum Hack.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.daŋ]
• Rhymes: -adaŋ, -daŋ, -aŋ
• Hyphenation: pa‧dang

padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ, plural padang-padang)

1. field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

• Indonesian: padang
• → English: padang

• “padang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang (Lontara spelling ᨄᨉᨂ)

1. sword grass, Imperata cylindrica
2. vegetation that resembles the stem of the rice plants, sword grass, very hard to eradicate except by digging up the roots.

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ)

1. field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. cane grass, Imperata cylindrica

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. a large treeless plain overgrown with sword grass (Imperata cylindrica).

From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang

1. earth, ground
2. field
3. kind of grass with sharp, needle-like leaves, when young it creeps along the ground with long tendrils

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)

1. grass
2. grassland; plain