Hindustani loan-words in Malay
This is a short note by R. O. Winstedt, published in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (No. 76, 1917), extracting a list of Malay words of Hindustani derivation from a 1902 article by Dr. Ph. S. van Ronkel.
Summary
Winstedt explains that van Ronkel’s article appeared in a French-language brochure presented to the Congress of Orientalists at Hanoi, and that it had escaped his notice when he compiled his Malay Grammar and English-Malay Dictionary. He reproduces a list of approximately twenty words with their Hindustani (and often Sanskrit) etymologies, including achita (unmilled rice), artal (orpiment), akas (firmament), bandahari (chief treasurer), churi (steal), chulim (opium fill), kapis (cotton), kanji (rice broth), kunchi (key), kuli (paid labourer), gudang (store), and muti (pearl) (p. 67–68).
The note also records a few corrections and qualifications: pelangking (palanquin) is identified as a Portuguese coinage from Sanskrit paryanka; lagam (horse-bit), which Winstedt had previously listed as Hindustani in his Grammar, is reclassified as a Persian loan-word that Malay may have borrowed from Persian rather than directly from Hindustani (p. 68).