Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Malay Archipelago, the banana, Musa paradisiaca.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pisang.
Examples
-
I was quite partial to the local tropical fruit and had nothing but that for breakfast every day -- mango, papaya, and those little bananas that in Malaysia are called pisang emas.
-
I was quite partial to the local tropical fruit and had nothing but that for breakfast every day -- mango, papaya, and those little bananas that in Malaysia are called pisang emas.
-
These two supposed exorcists clothe their nastiness under a veneer of religion and call themselves "The Professional Islamic Support and Nurture Group" or P.I.S.A.N.G allow me to roll around the floor laughing here - pisang means banana!
Irony and weirdness: a Malaysian story Glenda Larke 2009
-
Nirvana features a superb rendition of roti pisang, though you can't always get it: Roti service is suspended during main feedings of its hearty rice meals at lunch and supper.
Roti Canai 2009
-
These two supposed exorcists clothe their nastiness under a veneer of religion and call themselves "The Professional Islamic Support and Nurture Group" or P.I.S.A.N.G allow me to roll around the floor laughing here - pisang means banana!
Archive 2009-06-01 Glenda Larke 2009
-
If the living room is not considered a rather public location, perhaps an adult might want to change their underwear there the next time friends come over for tea and cucur or pisang goreng.
Incommunicado Sharon Bakar 2005
-
I am slightly allergic to the bananas grown in this hemisphere, but they can't hold a candle to the little pisang emas "golden bananas" I enjoyed while living in Malaysia.
-
A huge fire was built on the beach, and the small fish, stuffed into green bamboo joints, were thrown in the ashes; larger ones were sprinkled with _lombak_ dust (seasoning) and wrapped in pisang leaves.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
-
A photograph I have shows at least twenty-five varieties of fruit; the pisang being universally used, as well as the rambutan, durian, pomalo, and papaya.
Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
-
Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.
Tarzan of the Apes 1914
chained_bear commented on the word pisang
Usage/quote in comment on Poinciana pulcherrima.
December 28, 2016
ruzuzu commented on the word pisang
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, pisang-a-phone!
December 29, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word pisang
took me a second, ruzuzu, but it was worth it.
December 29, 2016