# padang
## English
### Etymology

From Malay padang.

### Noun

padang (plural padangs)
* Malaysian grassland

### Anagrams

* padnag

## Acehnese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* field; plain

## Balinese
### Noun

padang
* Romanization of ᬧᬤᬂ

## Bau Bidayuh
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

## Hanunoo
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.dɐŋ]
* Rhymes: -adaŋ
* Syllabification: pa‧dang

### Noun

padang (Hanunoo spelling ᜩᜧᜥ᜴)
* a short, small-leaved cogon grass, Imperata sp.

#### See also

* kugon

### Further reading

* Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 202

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* field; meadow
* large space covered with one kind of vegetation
* freshwater swamp, usually flooded and supporting few plants

#### Derived terms

* padang bilun (“airport”)

## Ida'an
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* coarse grass

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay ڤادڠ (padang, “field”), from Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.daŋ]
* Rhymes: -adaŋ
* Syllabification: pa‧dang

### Noun

padang (plural padang-padang)
* field

#### Derived terms

* berpadang
* padang belantara
* padang gembala
* padang gembala temporer
* padang golf
* padang gurun
* padang mahsyar
* padang minyak
* padang pasir
* padang perburuan
* padang ragut
* padang rumput
* padang rumput alam
* padang rumput tundra
* padang tekukur
* padang tembak
* padang tiah
* padang usaha

### Further reading

* “padang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Karo Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)
* kind of grass, Pogonatherum panicum Hack.

## Kelabit
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpadaŋ/ [ˈpa.daŋ]
* Rhymes: -adaŋ, -daŋ, -aŋ
* Hyphenation: pa‧dang

### Noun

padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ, plural padang-padang, informal 1st possessive padangku, 2nd possessive padangmu, 3rd possessive padangnya)
* field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* memadang [agent focus] (meN-)
* berpadang [stative / habitual] (beR-)
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
* padang bola
* padang jarak padang tekukur
* padang mahsyar
* padang pasir
* padang rumput

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: padang
* → English: padang

### Further reading

* “padang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mandar
### Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang (Lontara spelling ᨄᨉᨂ)
* sword grass, Imperata cylindrica
* vegetation that resembles the stem of the rice plants, sword grass, very hard to eradicate except by digging up the roots.

## Minangkabau
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang (Jawi spelling ڤادڠ)
* field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)

## Mongondow
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* cane grass, Imperata cylindrica

## Ngaju
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* a large treeless plain overgrown with sword grass (Imperata cylindrica).

## Tae'
### Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang
* earth, ground
* field
* kind of grass with sharp, needle-like leaves, when young it creeps along the ground with long tendrils

## Toba Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ (“uncultivated field, open grassland”).

### Noun

padang (Batak spelling ᯇᯑᯰ)
* grass
* grassland; plain