See mat salih on Wiktionary
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"etymology_links": [
[
"mat",
"mat#Malay"
],
[
"salih",
"salih#Malay"
],
[
"Mat Salleh",
"Mat Salleh#Malay"
],
[
"mad",
"mad#English"
],
[
"sailor",
"sailor#English"
]
],
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"t1": "a colloquial term for a specific person",
"t2": "weird"
},
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"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "en",
"3": "mad"
},
"expansion": "English mad",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mat (“a colloquial term for a specific person”) + salih (“weird”). See also Mat Salleh.\nIt is presumably borrowed from English mad sailor, referring to unruly, drunk British sailors who fought at ports and a euphemism used by the colonial British authorities.",
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"args": {
"pl": "-"
},
"expansion": "mat salih (uncountable)",
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}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
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}
],
"glosses": [
"white person, usually a male."
],
"id": "en-mat_salih-ms-noun-85s7a9d6",
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],
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"person"
]
],
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"(slang) white person, usually a male."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "orang putih"
}
],
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"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/mat saleh/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mät̚ säle̞h",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "-eh",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "-ɪh]",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
}
],
"word": "mat salih"
}
{
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"mat",
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],
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"salih",
"salih#Malay"
],
[
"Mat Salleh",
"Mat Salleh#Malay"
],
[
"mad",
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],
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"sailor",
"sailor#English"
]
],
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"name": "compound"
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{
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"3": "mad"
},
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
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"Malay terms borrowed from English",
"Malay terms derived from English",
"Malay uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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"white person, usually a male."
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"white",
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"person",
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],
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"(slang) white person, usually a male."
],
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{
"word": "orang putih"
}
],
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"slang",
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mat saleh/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mät̚ säle̞h",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "-eh",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
},
{
"ipa": "-ɪh]",
"note": "Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard"
}
],
"word": "mat salih"
}
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