different between rattan vs naboot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rotan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???tan/, /??atan/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???tæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

rattan (countable and uncountable, plural rattans)

1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
2. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.
   • 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula

     He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization

     […] the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline […]

Translations

Verb

rattan (third-person singular simple present rattans, present participle rattaning, simple past and past participle rattaned)

1. (transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.
   • 1915, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary (volume 51, page 56)

     Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]

Further reading

• rattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Tartan, Tatran, tantra, tartan

English

Noun

naboot (plural naboots)

1. A quarterstaff constructed of palm wood or rattan, originated in Egypt and used in the martial art of tahtib.
   • 1922, Walter Libby, The history of medicine in its salient features, page 12

     These injuries were probably sustained in attempting to ward off the blow of the naboot. This weapon was a staff, which was grasped, by the person wielding it, in both hands. Its use was a favorite pastime of the ancient Egyptians, and resembled the old English quarterstaff play.

Anagrams

• batoon, taboon