kalong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ (kalong).

Noun

kalong (plural kalongs)

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

Alternative forms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

kalong (plural kalong-kalong, first-person possessive kalongku, second-person possessive kalongmu, third-person possessive kalongnya)

  1. megabat (animal)

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

kalong

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦭꦺꦴꦁ
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