guriang

Sundanese

Etymology

Blend of guru +‎ hyang.

Noun

guriang (Sundanese script ᮌᮥᮛᮤᮃᮀ)

1. a kind of powerful spirit that lives in the mountains
   • 1862, Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (overall work in English):

     Bĕunang guguru ti gunung,
     Bĕunang nanya ti Guriang

     I have been taught it among the mountain,
     I have enquired after it from the mountain spirit.

Further reading

• “Guriang” in Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (1862), page 136.