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In retrospect, ‘Kod.Karma’ would have sounded just as good. Apparently not, according to Kamus Dewan. Actually, I was trying to see if the word ‘koda’ in my ‘ Koda.Karma‘ blog site name is a sanctioned Malay word. That would have directly led me to the Karyanet site which hosts the online Kamus Dewan. Oh, why did it take this long for me to find this gem? I have been looking for a reliable online Malay dictionary for so long and it did not occur to me to type ‘kamus dewan’ in a Google search. Now could somebody tell me why it is called “Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka” and not “Dewan dan Pustaka Bahasa”? There is no question that DBP is still relevant as the purveyor of the Malay language. Alternatively, maybe the ability to add a word- or a pantun-of-the-day as a content in a Personalized Google page would be cool thing to have.ĭBP has offered a lot and still has a lot to offer. They should provide e-mail services like word-of-the-day or even pantun-of-the-day. Their dictionaries should be more like what is offered by, say, the Merriam-Webster online.
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DBP should host blogs from the language experts and novices alike. On its 50th anniversary (it was established on June 22, 1956), I think it should grab the Internet bull by the horn with a vengeance. You may also want to sharpen up your peribahasa (idioms). You could search a pantun to surprise the love of your life, for example. More recently, I found another bonus: the Pantun (rhyme) repository. Karyanet’s charter is mainly to provide a mechanism for writers to publish Malay writings. We could now find out the meaning of a Malay word online through Karyanet. Recently, I found out that DBP has ventured into the cyberspace. And my parents would have felt the same way too. Had they won something, I would have been eternally indebted to DBP for sure. There was some serious prize money involved. I made it because my parents were very much into doing the crossword puzzles in Berita Harian. It possibly had some other features I could not remember already. It was basically a listing of words categorized by their lengths, ordered in forward and reverse directions. This was more than 15 years ago when I was an undergraduate in the US. While I have to admit I have not used products and services of DBP for a very long time already, I still have fond memories of typing word entries from Kamus Dewan into a text file and wrote some Unix scripts to feed LaTeX so that I could typeset a Malay crossword puzzle “dictionary”. ( Please see Kamus Dewan moved for latest updates.) (See also Karyanet ditutup sementara! (Karyanet closed temporarily) where I initially found Rujukan Kamus Terbitan DBP which seemed to be an incomplete half-baked version of Carian Kata DBP.) I reckon Carian Kata is the coolest thing DBP has ever created for us Malay language users. I know Valentine’s Day has passed already, but you could search pantuns on ‘ cinta‘ (love) or ‘ merana‘ (agony), for example. One neat thing also is, from the same place, you could search Malay pantuns (rhymes). The All (‘ Semua‘) category is pretty useless because it would only return the number of matches from each category. Just make sure you pick one search category (‘ Kategori‘). The usability could still be improved (the page reloading and window resizing problems are driving me nuts) but I would say this is the ultimate tool for Bahasa Melayu users.
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You could now search words in Kamus Dewan and other DBP great resources like Tesaurus Bahasa Melayu Dewan (thesaurus), Kamus Inggeris-Melayu Dewan (English-Malay dictionary), Kamus Pelajar (learner’s dictionary), Kamus Istimewa Peribahasa Melayu (Malay idioms dictionary) and Kamus Komputer (computer dictionary), among other things, all at the same time at Carian Kata DBP. Kamus Dewan will and should forever be associated with DBP. It bewildered me the first time I learned about the online Kamus Dewan not being hosted at DBP. Could you imagine if WordPress went down that long for maintenance?īut despair not! The online Kamus Dewan has been brought back to where it should have been in the first place - to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) web site. Unfortunately Karyanet is down until middle of April this year for “maintenance”. I wrote a little less than a year ago about the Kamus Dewan could already be used online.