at last,,i found something interesting to bo read.
..how a village got its name..
tergerak plak hati nk bace paper petang ni..belek punye belek, i found a title that 'interesting history behind town names'..by jassmine shadiqe
bnyk mase ag ni..i pon read it...
to get to Labis from Johor Bahru, we have to exited the North-South expressway at the Yong Peng Selatan toll plaza. There,, u will notice that a village called Kampung Temu Jodoh (loosely translated as a village where you will meet your future husband or wife) near Cha’ah.
Nice name for a village, right??=)
This Kampung Temu Jodoh is about 20km away from Yong Peng.
some locals said it is a new village which opened in early 1970s.
the land was cleared by young men from a nearby village. These bachelors, aged between 18 and 24 work hard to clear the area and earned about rm60 a month to cover their food expenses.
They barely had enough let alone to go out or take the ladies on dinner dates. As such, many remained single and did not have girlfriends.
Then, a similar scheme was introduced with young women a year later, and it is said that this gave the men here a chance to meet up with the ladies.
You know what?...some 24 couples who met here held their akad nikah(marriage solemnisation) ceremony at the Segamat Mosque, followed by a mass reception ceremony for the villagers.
A huge pelamin or dais was built at the football field nearby to accommodate the couples.
The imam, who solemnised their akad nikah, had spontaneously referred to the village as Desa Temu Jodoh and that is how the village got its name….sweetkan the story..
As for Tenang, meaning serene and peaceful, got its name due to its calm atmosphere while others claim it was named after a man called Tok Tenang, who founded the village. tenang sangat ke???nk pegi la nnt..hehe
Meanwhile, Segamat derived its name from two Malay adjectives segar(refreshing) and amat(very).The locals claim that when the last Sultan of Malacca, Mahmud Shah, was fleeing the Portuguese in 1511, he stopped to rest on the banks of the Muar River. Sultan is said to have been refreshed after he washed his face with a sprinkling of the river water.
It is said that since the Sultan found the river water very refreshing, he decided to name the place as Segar Amat. However it was later shortened to Segamat.
Finally, the town Labis derived it’s name from river terrapins, which are called labi-labi in Malay.
The name was given by early 20th-century British officers who came to survey the village in Segamat district. When the officers asked for the name of these animals, the villagers answered “labi-labi”.
The officers then referred to them as “labis” in the plural form, and so, the settlement was named Labis…
Huhu,, that is the story…thanks to the reporter bcoz wrote such an interesting article..this kind of information is a good knowledge for us to know better about our places.
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