Cerucuh

Cerucuh (also written as cheruchoh, charochah, cheruchup, cerucah, and cerucup)[1]:43, 316[2]:52[3]:202[4]:202[5]:95 is an ancient, small Malay trading boat.[6]:271 The first record of cerucuh comes from the 15th century Malay Annals, being used by Majapahit empire during the first Majapahit attack on Singapura (1350). Malay Annals recorded:

Maka betara Majapahit pun menitahkan hulubalangnya berlengkap perahu akan menyerang Singapura itu, seratus buah jung; lain dari itu beberapa melangbing dan kelulus, jongkong, cerucuh, tongkang, tiada terhisabkan lagi banyaknya. So the king of Majapahit ordered his war commander to equip vessels for attacking Singapore, a hundred jong; other than that a few melangbing and kelulus; jongkong, cerucuh, tongkang all in uncountable numbers.[7]

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References
  1. Shellabear, William Girdlestone (1967). Sejarah Melayu. Oxford University Press.
  2. Raffles, Thomas Stamford (1821). Malay Annals. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
  3. Hill, A. H. (June 1960). "Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai". Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 33 (2 (190)): 1–215. JSTOR 41505497 – via JSTOR.
  4. Iskandar, Teuku (1984). Kamus Dewan. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
  5. Ismail, Abdul Rahman Haji (1998). "Malay Annals". Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. ISBN 9789679948134.
  6. Denisova, Tatiana A. (2011). Refleksi Historiografi Alam Melayu. Penerbit Universiti Malaya. ISBN 9789831009260.
  7. See Muljana (2005). p. 65 and Nugroho (2011). p 271, quoting Sejarah Melayu, 5.4: 47.

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