köken: From Proto-Turkic *beŕ (“gland”). Cognate with Kazakh без (bez, “gland”), Karachay-Balkar без (bez, “gland”), Uzbek bez (“gland”), Uyghur بەز (bez, “gland”), Turkmen mäz (“gland”), Turkish bez (“gland”), Tuvan бес (bes, “gland”), Chuvash пар (par, “gland”).
köken: Ultimately inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lamun (“swamp grass”) via an unknown substrate language. Coined by Indonesian marine scientist Malikusworo Hutomo in 1985 in his master thesis.