parang

Dec. 12th, 2011 07:16 am
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parang (PAHR-ahng) - n., a stout, straight-bladed long knife of Malaysia and Indonesia.


Used as much as a tool as a weapon, much like the machete. Borrowed from Malay in 1839.

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