Difference between revisions of "Kaburo"
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Revision as of 08:50, 9 August 2007
Contents
Pronounciation
?
Alternative spellings
- Keburo
Translations
- Part of speech
- noun
- English
- Sweet flag
- Malay
- ?
Derived Terms
- n/a
Encyclopedic info
- Scientific name
- Acorus calamus
- Kelabit
- 'Kaburo' inah adhah sibu
- Uat nuk pangah pidang tuen nutuk, ngelamud ruyung abpa'. Abpa' dih rupen, koh tabat etap selangui, mey lemaii
- Baney 'kaburo' pakai meta'ut ada'
- English
- 'Kaburo' is cultivated (1)
- The dried rhizome is pounded, mixed with water and drunk as an antidote to snake bites, and as a cure for diarrhoea.(1)
- Wearing a necklace of dried 'kaburo' is believed to scare away malevolent spirits because of the smell.(1)
- Malay
- ?
References
- Ethnobotany of the Iban & Kelabit by Hanne Christensen
