The story
- Malay · borrowed fromtongkang“barge”
- English todaytongkang
Borrowed from Malay tongkang (“barge”). Cognate with Burmese တုန်ကင်း (tunkang:).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tongkang
Today it means: A kind of light wooden boat used in the early 19th century to carry goods along rivers in Maritime Southeast Asia. Full definition →
Malay tongkang