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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Malay Tongue, as Spoken in the Peninsula of Malacca, the Islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang, &C., &C, Vol. 1 of 2: English and Malay, and Malay and English; To Which Is Prefixed a Grammar of That Language
With regard to the religion of 'the Malays, they are now Mohamme dans, although they feem formerly to have been mere Pagans, for there is not to be found in their language any word which fignifics God, or Angels, or Prophet, or Church, or Devil, except what has been bor rowed from the Arabic, whence they received many other words. Hence it is, namely, from the koraun, that they received their alphabet, ex cepting a few peculiar founds which the Arabs had no character to deli neate. Exclqve of the words borrowed from the Arabic, there are fe veral from the Perfian and Hindooftanee; as, for Wheat, Bread, &c. Articles not growing or made in their own country, they received the name, together with the article, from the diftriét whence it came.
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