Where does “padang” come from?

padang (English) comes from Indonesian padang, from Malay padang, from Proto-Malayic *padaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ — uncultivated field; open grassland.

padang (English): Malaysian grassland

Definitions

  1. Malaysian grassland

Ancestry of “padang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpadangfield
2Malaypadangfield
3Proto-Malayic*padaŋuncultivated field; open grassland
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*padaŋuncultivated field; open grassland
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *padaŋ →Every word from Proto-Malayic *padaŋ →Every word from Malay padang →