Meaning of "bomoh" in the Malay dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BOMOH IN MALAY

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WHAT DOES BOMOH MEAN IN MALAY?

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Bomoh refers to traditional medicine in the Malay community of ancient times. Bomoh treats based on the use of plants and animals. If a disease fails, the bomoh will turn to the belief in the spiritual power of the environment, which is a way of life before the teachings of Islam flourish in the archipelago to treat the patient. Bomoh is a person who is believed to be able to heal various diseases because he is only considered to be in contact with spirits or supernatural powers. Traditional medicine practitioners in the Malay community are also known as shamans, or handlers.

Definition of bomoh in the Malay dictionary

a physician who physically treats people with traditional medicine or the way villages and spells, handlers, shamans; ~ looking for people who are ill-advised; make use of bomoh services to cure diseases, witches, harms, etc.; make fun of using some bomoh to cure diseases, witches, harms, etc.: Someone has to defeat his opponent; Communism is traditionally practiced by a bomoh or shamans; bomohreatment: magical legacy beliefs and ~; gain expertise in science ~.

TRANSLATION OF BOMOH

Find out the translation of bomoh to 25 languages with our Malay multilingual translator.

The translations of bomoh from Malay to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bomoh» in Malay.

• Translator Malay - Chinese: 巫
• Translator Malay - Spanish: chamán
• Translator Malay - English: shaman
• Translator Malay - Hindi: जादूगर
• Translator Malay - Arabic: الطبيب الساحر
• Translator Malay - Russian: шаман
• Translator Malay - Portuguese: xamã
• Translator Malay - Bengali: ওঝা
• Translator Malay - French: chaman
• Malay: bomoh
• Translator Malay - German: Schamane
• Translator Malay - Japanese: シャーマン
• Translator Malay - Korean: 무녀
• Translator Malay - Javanese: shaman
• Translator Malay - Vietnamese: người giả bộ
• Translator Malay - Tamil: மத குருவாகவும்
• Translator Malay - Marathi: shaman
• Translator Malay - Turkish: şaman
• Translator Malay - Italian: sciamano
• Translator Malay - Polish: szaman
• Translator Malay - Ukrainian: шаман
• Translator Malay - Romanian: șaman
• Translator Malay - Greek: σαμάνος
• Translator Malay - Afrikaans: shaman
• Translator Malay - Swedish: shaman
• Translator Malay - Norwegian: shaman

5 MALAY BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMOH»

Discover the use of bomoh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bomoh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Malay literature.

West Malaysia and Singapore - Halaman 43

Being a Malay, a devout Muslim and a bomoh, Haji Osman believes that for every illness there must be an agent responsible for it, and that for all these sicknesses there must be a cure. Consequently, it is necessary to continuously seek ways ...

Wendy Moore, 1998

Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural ...

THE BOMOH'S ROLE DURING CHILDBIRTH As a general rule, the bomoh is not called upon to assist a woman in labor unless the midwife feels that the case has gone beyond her capabilities as sole practitioner. The bomoh who assist at ...

Carol Laderman, 1987

Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and ... - Halaman 16

The Ninety-Nine Laws of Perak, compiled in the eighteenth century by a family that claimed descent from Muhammad, state that "Muslims must feed the district judge, the officials of the mosque, the bomoh and the bidan. The muezzin is king in ...

Carol Laderman, 1991

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted ...

THE BOMOH – healer, or shaman, or magic-man – was a year older than the century. He was of mixed Chinese and Indonesian parentage. His father had left China towards the end of the nineteenth century, part of the spilling out of the poor ...

V. S. Naipaul, 2012

Detektif Bertudung Hitam: Penyiasat Masjid: - Halaman 154

“Nampaknya bisnes Bomoh Haslam lebih maju daripada bisnes Pawang Sinclair dan Dukun Mazidol,” komen Zamri sebaik sahaja mereka keluar dari van. Mata Zahra pula terus memerhatikan ke arah rumah Bomoh Haslam yang tiga tingkat ...

Bahruddin Bekri, 2010