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Semang

Semang noun: an ethnic minority of the Malay Peninsula.

Noun

Semang (plural Semangs)

  1. An ethnic minority of the Malay Peninsula.
  2. (countable) A member of this group.
    • The Negritos and the Semangs agree very closely in physical characteristics with each other and with the Andaman Islanders, while they differ in a marked manner from every Papuan race.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 452

Forms of Semang

pluralSemangs

Questions about Semang

What does Semang mean?
Semang means an ethnic minority of the Malay Peninsula.
What part of speech is Semang?
Semang is a noun.
What is the plural of Semang?
The plural of Semang is Semangs.

Words near Semang in the dictionary

  1. Semainian
  2. semainier
  3. semainiers
  4. Semaj
  5. Seman
  6. Semang
  7. Semangs
  8. Semans
  9. semanteme
  10. semantemes
  11. semantic

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