Any /ktards know the history behind the names of these places?

Sri Petaling=大城堡
Bukit Mertajam= 大山脚
Taman Bukit Permai= 小云顶
JB= 新山
Sermban= 芙蓉
Penang Mainland=北海
Kampung Cempaka= 大港
Damansara=白沙罗

These places don't have names where their pinyin match their BM/ English names. For example:

Kepong= 甲洞
PJ =八打灵
Melaka=马六甲
Kuantan= 关丹
ipoh=怡保

Caonima

means fakyurmader also means alpaca

Ipoh Menglembu 万里望
Penang Balik Pulau 普罗

Jiu Lai
Pa Sang

This post has been edited by poweredbydiscuz: Sep 7 2022, 01:43 PM

Sri Petaling=大城堡
Taman Cheras =友力

Was forced to change

屌你妈超嗨

genting kelang = kilang biskuit in chinese

芙蓉 = sungai ujong
白沙罗 = sg damansara

these names exist before WW1

Sermban= 芙蓉

Seremban was Sungai Ujong

Says cakap Damansara is a typo

https://says.com/my/fun/did-you-know-damans...pelling-mistake

but some malay naming adopt from chinese, like taiping and yong peng.

Most r very old names

balik pulau more correct one is 浮罗山背

that name is local call one


also worth mentioning

langkawi 浮咯交怡 better than knn commies 蓝卡威

This post has been edited by DValentine: Sep 7 2022, 01:47 PM

Well, most Chinese also don't know the place if said in Chinese hence no way most will know why. No point to discuss

any location/city english name translate to mandarin/chinese will indirectly sound poetic lol

sad that many simply do not wanna be bilingual here.

we stuck with

Person 1: Ko nak gi mane nanti?
Person 2: Kampongg akoo 🤪

This post has been edited by Bendan[520]: Sep 7 2022, 01:52 PM

新山 long time ago heard. Very weird imo but I never questioned about it.

I like 兰卡威 more, it sounds like a beautiful place.

I like 兰卡威 more, it sounds like a beautiful place.

大城堡 is said to come from the old English name, but I can't remember what that is.

Rawang winrar

cheras = jiu lai

U LIKE U PUNYA PASAL KNN DOUBLE POST

no need that name to please knn commies

yini bumi sape

This post has been edited by DValentine: Sep 7 2022, 01:59 PM

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9F%8E%E5%A0%A1

话望生 Gua Musang.. a very nice Chinese name in a PAS dominated state

Interesting. Taman Castlefield

Talk about Bumi, 兰卡威 is more suitable for Bumi pronunciation and understanding.
浮咯交怡 sounds too pendatang. Sounds like a weapon of Chinese's God Universe.

Kota Kinabalu‘s Chinese name still using the cities old name of Api Api

maybe gen z or banana don't know

Kucing.....

Ayam 大城堡.
But no Castle here.

The name of 新山 is related to the period when Sultan johore giving out surat Sungai to the Chinese merchant in Singapore.

北海comes from "Prai".

Others are well documented and quite easy to understand. Just google.

Teluk Intan - Onn Soon coz last time is Teluk Ansoon.

Sg Chua - Sek Mai San
Kajang - Ka yeng

This post has been edited by kcchong2000: Sep 8 2022, 07:54 AM

Use hokkien pronunciation then u know why

Last time Cheras alot of banana farm so export bananas therefore they call it Jiu lai means place where banana from.

-Fictional

你媽發青

I am Hokkien.
兰=Lan
卡=Ka
威=Woei

浮=Pu
咯/罗=Gok/Lo
交=Gao
怡=Yi
Damn the Chair of Pu Lo.

I used below link to pronounce "咯“ coz I don't know how to pronounce in Hookien.
https://cn.voicedic.com/

大城堡area used to be part of Castlefield Plantation during the British colonial times .. Not sure if this is the origin of this 大城堡name.

boss

ayam soli ayam banana

but pls can type out what you wrote in mandarin ?

thanks

tmn castlefield still there, but reduced to become a very very small taman only. quite hidden as well and afaik, only accessible via sg besi highway toward kl right after petron.

chiulai = cheras

Pudu - 半山芭

Fuguishanzhuang

富贵山庄

屌你老母臭屄

damansara... not all replaced with ss 1 2 3 4 5?

Castlefield Estate was a huge plantation estate back then. Stretched from Pusat Bandar Puchong towards Sri Petaling

Petaling Garden Development later bought part of the land and developed the estate into Seri Petaling in stages.

The name Seri Petaling derived from the name of the development company, which also developed the township of Petaling Jaya.

Tai Seng Poh meant Big Castle

This post has been edited by JimbeamofNRT: Sep 8 2022, 09:15 AM

batang berjuntai got?

Cameron Highlands= Kam Ma Lun
Genting Highlands = Wan Theng
Fraser Hill = Fook Loong Kong
Pulau Ketam = Ketam Tou
Penang = Pan Sing
Perlis = Po Lei Si
Kedah = Kat Tah

JB= 新山

ooi liau hokkien lang em jai johor si sia mi kui, ku sua di tiong kok...chin chai kio hi geh tee h'ng "sin sua" nia lorrr

kampung chempaka - 千百家村
bagan sungai besar - 大港
sungai chua - 锡米山
batu arang - 煤炭山
bagan sungai tengkorak - 东姑腊

Mont kiara = 孟加拉?

What is batang berjuntai? Lum par tiao tiao?

I tot cheras got a convent school. There many banana ....

This post has been edited by Knnbuccb: Sep 8 2022, 09:52 AM

Kota Kinabalu = 亚庇

Why is Klang = Pa Sang ?

setapak - mun liong kong

Ss2 誒誒兔
Ss15 誒誒富裕亭
Seksyen17 穴文亭

Inb4 lowyat.cn

si-monyet

巴生 - air 'pasang' at port
klang - 'klang klang' sound when building/repairing ships.
- many 'kilang' at the port.

I have long suspected Klang is of Thai origin, because there is so many places in Thailand that comes with Klang word. Turns out my suspicion is right. Below is taken from MPAK website:

The origin of the name Klang is from the languageh Mon-Khymer which is "Klong". Klong can be identified as a warehouse like what was stated by C.O. Blagden that said that Klang became an important Port that has lots of warehouses.

https://www.mpklang.gov.my/en/visitors/klang-info

Why is Fraser Hill called Fook Loong Kong?

大山脚 = foot of mountain (mountain base), present day Bukit mertajam, basically just the location where BM town is build

北海 = Northern Sea (present day Butterworth), some source say its from a late Qing document call 槟榔屿游记 = Penang Island travel notes, the note mentions

过海一带英之属境，统归屿辖。共设公堂五：一在北海、一在笨仔牙、一在高淹、一在大山脚、一在武吉淡门”

Cross the sea, a region owned by English, govern under the Island's jurisdiction. 5 courts are established. 1 at the Northern Sea (北海, Butterworth), 1 at BenZiYa (笨仔牙, dont know what is the current location, translation is idiot's teeth), 1 at GaoYan (高淹, translation High Flood, present day Nibong Tebal), 1 at foot of Mountain (大山脚, present day bukit mertajam, 1 at 武吉淡汶 (chinese pinyin of Bukit Tambun)

This post has been edited by MKCL: Sep 8 2022, 04:46 PM

"In the 19th century, there was a chinese businessman who lived at the foot of the mountain. He opened a grocery store by the creek. Those who wanted to go to pahang through the gorge often bought things and rested in the store, because the sign in the store said with the word "福隆", people call the place "福隆港". After that, the canyon and the mountain were collectively referred to by the Chinese name, because the mountain was not named at that time, and in fact the word "港" was not used to call the mountain. [12] However, 许云樵 once affirmed the false statement that the "港" of "福隆港" was "岗" in the 1972 "nanyang business daily" column. He also explained that the original 港 was at the foot of the mountain. In the 19th century It was opened by a chinese, from which you can climb the mountain through the canyon to pahang, so pedestrians call the mountain a 港."

According to historical records, 文良港 existed in 1862, when it belonged to a mining area in the northeastern district of kuala lumpur. It was only formed as a mining town in about 1880.

光前村 (former 南益 rubber factory) is a new village developed in the later period of this mining town. there is a river here called "双溪柏龙岗" (sungai belongkong).

"文良港" is the homophonic place name in the hokkien dialect (southern min - minnan) for “柏龙岗”