甘蜜
Chinese
sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.) | honey | ||
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simp. and trad. (甘蜜) | 甘 | 蜜 |
Etymology
Phono-semantic matching of Malay gambir (“gambier”).
Pronunciation
Noun
甘蜜
- (chiefly Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) gambier (Uncaria gambir)
References
- Lim, Hiong Seng (1886), “Lesson XXI”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 119