ambing

Borrowed from Sundanese ambing (“to rock in a cradle”).

• IPA^(key): /ambiŋ/
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Hyphenation: am‧bing

ambing

1. (transitive, intransitive) to rock (a child to sleep) in a cradle
   • 1972, Saidi S., “Ajun Ambing [Swinging and Rocking]”, in Tukang Tuak [Palm Wine Seller]‎^[1], performed by Benyamin Sueb, Jakarta: Indah, track B3:

     Ayun-ayun ambing / Entong, anak Baba'

     Swinging and rocking / You boy, my dear child

• Batten, C. J. (1868), “Ambing”, in De djoeroe basa Betawi: Eenvoudige Bataviaasch-Maleische woordenverzameling [The Betawi translator: A simple Batavian-Malay word collection] (in Dutch), Batavia: H. M. van Dorp, page 11

Inherited from Malay ambing.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈambiŋ/ [ˈam.bɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -ambiŋ
• Syllabification: am‧bing

ambing (plural ambing-ambing)

1. (physiology) udder

• “ambing”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016