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bilik

Pronunciation: /ˈbilek/

“bilik” is a Malay word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. A room (division in a building).
  2. A cabin of a junk.
  3. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person; a booth.
  4. type of screen woven out of bamboo strips used to partition walls in houses and so on.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bilik. Cognate of Javanese bilik.

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