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‖ pisang|pɪˈsæŋ|
Also 7 piçan, pissan, pysangh.
[Malay pīsang.]
The Malay name of the Banana, formerly also in English use. wild pisang, the name given to a S. African allied plant, Strelitzia augusta.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 134 The Country abounds..specially in Fruits,..Pissans, Oranges and Lemmons. 1671Narborough in Acc. Sev. late Voy. i. (1694) 141, 6000 Coco-Nuts and 100 Bundles of Pysanghs. 1812Anne Plumtre tr. Lichtenstein's S. Africa I. ii. xv. 204 The Pisang river..has this name from the profusion of wild Pisang,..strelitzia alba, that grows upon its banks.
†b. attrib. pisang fig, a banana; pisang-tree.
1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 31 Little Vessels..brought..Coco's, Pisang Figgs, which are a long kind of Figg. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 291 Much hath already been written concerning the Pisang-tree. 1745P. Thomas Anson's Voy. 333 Those most admired are the Pisang Figs. |