kus

“kus” is a Malay word. Its 2 meanings in English:

interjection

expression while chasing away cats etc: Shoo! Go away! Begone!
expression to summon the spirit of one's life in Malay folk mythology: Come!

Etymology

Sense of summoning spirits displaced or overwhelmed by sense of shooing with increasing modernity/urbanization and religiosity of Malay society from coastal regions inward from 19-20th centuries

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