Meanings
plural Semangs
- An ethnic minority of the Malay Peninsula.
- countableA member of this group.
The Negritos and the Semangs agree very closely in physical characteristics with each other and with the Andaman Islanders, while they differ in a marked manner from every Papuan race.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 452
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