pawang

English

Etymology

Malay pawang

Noun

pawang (plural pawangs)

  1. A Malay shaman.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176:
      The "Pawang" also inflicts death from a distance, by burning the cordiform top of a newly opened bunch of bananas on the tree.

Anagrams

Malay
pawang (Zimbabwean witch doctor)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pawaŋ/
  • Rhymes: -awaŋ, -waŋ, -aŋ

Noun

pawang (Jawi spelling ڤاوڠ‎, plural pawang-pawang, informal 1st possessive pawangku, 2nd possessive pawangmu, 3rd possessive pawangnya)

  1. shaman (a medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)

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