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sirih

sirih noun: a vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.

Noun

sirih (uncountable)

  1. A vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.
    • In a small Bamboo case, prettily carved and ornamented, the Dyak carries his sirih and lime for betel chewing, and his little long-bladed knife has a Bamboo sheath.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 126

Origin of sirih

From Malay sirih.

Questions about sirih

What does sirih mean?
Sirih means a vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.
What part of speech is sirih?
Sirih is a noun.

Words near sirih in the dictionary

  1. siriasis
  2. siricid
  3. siricids
  4. Sirico
  5. Siricos
  6. sirih
  7. SIRIM
  8. siring
  9. sirings
  10. siriometer
  11. siriometers

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