Moluccas

English Etymology From Maluku, thought to have been derived from the term used by Arab traders for the region, en ar جَزِيرَات المَلِك king islands, from the word ar مَلِك. However, since the name itself has been mentioned in a 14th-century Majapahit eulogy, Nagarakretagama, that predates the arrival of Islam in Maluku at the late fifteenth century, other sources claim that the name comes from a local language with the meaning "the head of a bull" or "the head of something large".Andaya Leonard Y. The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period 1993 Univ. of Hawaii Press Honolulu 0-8248-1490-8 en ar م ل ك Pronunciation en /məˈlʌkəz/ Proper noun Maluku Islands en archipelago c/Indonesia. chapter 6 And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands. Synonyms Maluku, Malukus Maluku Islands/Maluku islands Moluccan Islands Spice Islands Translations archipelago Armenian: hy Մոլուքյան կղզիներ p Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 摩鹿加群島 Mólùjiā Qúndǎo Czech: cs Moluky Dutch: nl Molukken p Farefare: gur Malukudõma French: fr Moluques p German: de Molukken p Greek: el Μολούκες f-p Irish: ga Molacaí na Molacaí Italian: it Molucche f-p Portuguese: pt Molucas Russian: ru Молу́ккские острова́ p Spanish: es Molucas f-p, es Islas Molucas f-p References