mercun

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦼꦂꦕꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (mercon) from suffixation of mercu (“fireball”) + -an. Mercu itself is borrowed from Tamil விரிசு (viricu).[1]

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. firecracker

Alternative forms
  • Lua error in Module:id:Dialects at line 8: attempt to call global 'alias' (a nil value)

References
    1. Hoogervorst, Tom (2015). "Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia". Archipel. 89: 75.
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