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Malay:

tongkat

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noun

  1. a staff; a cane; a walking stick

    2. "I’ll be more than 80 at the time, so I may need a tongkat … If I can’t use the tongkat to help me walk on the bridge, I'll use the tongkat on the people who built the bridge"!

    — 2004, Ramon V. Navaratnam (quoting Mahathir Mohamad). Winds of Change: Malaysia's Economic Transition from Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Pelanduk Publications. ISBN: 9789679789058. p.161


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