parang

1. 1.

   a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia

   Broaderknife

Other forms of parang

plural

parangs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parang

What does parang mean?

parang means "a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia".

How many syllables are in parang?

parang has 2 syllables and divides as pa-rang under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.