köken: From Malay sampan, from Classical Malay سمڤن (sampan), from either: * Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán), or * Old Malay [script needed] (sāmvau). First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription as Old Malay [script needed] (sāmvau). #* 683, Kedukan Bukit Inscription: dua ratus cāra di sāmvau daṅan jālan sarivu tlu ratus sapulu dua vañakña dātaṃ di mukha upaṃ as many as two-hundred in dugouts, with…