tahi lalat

Malay:

tahi lalat

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noun

  1. a mole; a dark lesion on the skin
  2. ... let me hasten to explain that tahi in Bahasa is not as crude as its equivalent in English. A charming mole on a girl's face, for example, is called tahi lalat manis ...

    — 1988 October 24, Adiban Amin. The Straits Times, "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world". p.8