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The word ' Basha ' is a Malay word meaning ' a shelter ' or ' hut ' and was first introduced into the British Army vocabulary by veterans of the Malayan Campaign ( 1950 – 1959 ) e. g. Malayan Scouts, who would eventually evolve into the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment ( SAS ).
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These include Biffa gaining a new baby brother Basha, and owning a dog called Knacka ( a pun of Dennis The Menace's dog Gnasher and the slang word knacker ).
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I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
Complicity is an embarrassing word.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??
The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.
Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.
For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.
If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.
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Amok originated from the Malay word mengamuk, which roughly defined means “ to make a furious and desperate charge ”.
The word " agar " comes from agar-agar, the Malay name for red algae ( Gigartina, Gracilaria ) from which the jelly is produced.
Note that purnima or pornima is Sanskrit for full moon, which has also become the Malay word for full moon purnama.
The English word " mandarin " ( from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning " minister or counsellor "), originally meant an official of the Chinese empire.
Muay boran, and therefore muay Thai, was originally called by more generic names such as pahuyuth ( from the Sanskrit bahu-yuddha meaning unarmed combat ), dhoi muay ( boxing or pugilism, a cognate of the Malay word tomoi ) or simply muay.
It has been noted that the likely origin of the word comes specifically from the Banjarese variety of Malay.
The word was first attested in English in 1691 in the form orang-outang, and variants with-ng instead of-n as in the Malay original are found in many languages.
The word papua is derived from pepuah, a Malay word describing the curly, coiled, Melanesian hair, and " New Guinea " ( Nueva Guinea ) was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez.
In 1526 – 27, the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it Papua, a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair.
For example, the word for " daylight " in Indonesian, the word for " day " in Malay and the word for " king " in Tagalog are " hari ".
The name Tupaia is derived from tupai the Malay word for squirrel and was provided by Sir Stamford Raffles.
The name, pangolin, comes from the Malay word, pengguling, meaning " something that rolls up ".
In addition, local dialects employ derivations of the Malay word then in use for ' silver ', in contrast to the term used in wider Melanesian society, which has etymological roots in Chinese, a consequence of the regional trade with China that was developed in the 6th and 7th centuries.
The leathery skin is reddish ( rarely orange or yellow ), and covered with fleshy pliable spines, hence the name rambutan, derived from the Malay word rambut which means hairs.
The word " dugong " derives from the Tagalog term dugong which was in turn adopted from the Malay duyung, both meaning " lady of the sea ".
The English word tael comes through Portuguese from the Malay word tahil, meaning " weight ".
The Malay word for the sauce was kĕchap.
Later in the Javanese tradition the apsara was also called Hapsari, also known as Widodari ( from sanskrit word Vidhyadhari, vidhya: knowledge, dharya: having, bearer, or bringer ), and finally known as Bidadari in the modern Indonesian language ( the same form of the word is now present in the Malay language, as well ).
In either case the original word was pronounced parangiar in Tamil, or pfirangi in Sanskrit and entered Khmer as barang and Malay as ferenggi.
*" action / askyen / eksyen "-show-offy ( due to confusion of the usage of the Malay word " berlagak ", which can either mean " show off " or " to act ")
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