What we had yesterday was spoilt before it could be cooked-- Pilih ikan yang baharu.
It is difficult to get fish at this hour-- Ikan payah di-chahari bagini hari.
It is not surprising therefore that in repeating her story Babur should use a tense betokening hear-say matter (barib ikan dur).
He does not affirm that Jani Beg's habits were strange or that the envoy was an athlete but that both things must have been (ikan dur) from what he had heard or to suit the point of the anecdote.
Before leaving the subject of cats, I must mention the belief that the "fresh-water fish calledikan belidah" was "originally a cat.
Similarly the ikan tumuli is believed to be a human being who has been drowned in the river, and the ikan kalul to be a monkey transformed.
Many Malays refuse to eat the fresh-water fish calledikan belidah, [518] on the plea that it was originally a cat.
The species of monkey which is believed to turn into the ikan kalul is, as I was told in Selangor, the b'rok or "cocoa-nut monkey.
The ikan kli is armed with two sharp barbed spines attached to the fore-part of the pectoral fins, and can and does inflict very nasty wounds with them, when incautiously handled.
After crossing the Ayer Ikan stream twice we arrived at some hot springs, about three or four miles in the winding course we were obliged to take from dusun Tanjong, situated in a low swampy spot, about sixty yards in circumference.
After again crossing the Ikan stream we arrived at dusun Simpang.
At dusun Baru one of our people caught a fine large fish, called ikan gadis.
Of the ikan layer (genus novum schombro affine) a grand specimen is preserved in the British Museum, where it was deposited by Sir Joseph Banks;* and a description of it by the late M.
There has been a tribute palaver, and Peter went down to Ikan and wiped up his uncle; he filled in his spare time by giving the Akasava the worst licking they have ever had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ikan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
