A term of unclear meaning, possibly related to Malayan or Southeast Asian languages, though modern usage is extremely rare or obsolete.
Possibly from Malay/Indonesian, but the etymology is uncertain; it may be a technical or regional term that did not survive into modern standard usage.
Bahnung is a reminder that English vocabulary contains hundreds of colonial-era words with such poor documentation that modern lexicographers can't even confidently define them—lost linguistic artifacts!
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