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Badwi tua di-kaki bukit
Kěluar měnjaga mashrik ka-maghrib
Badwi Arfah ampunya murid
Mukim Kělawai sèdia tauhid.
Mukim Kelawai headed by a Penghulu under the North-East District Office. The main mosque in this area is the Al-Munauwar Mosque. Adjacent kampung include Kampung Palembang, borderring Kampung Syed (Burma Road), Kampung Hogam (Edgecumbe Road) and Kampung Belah Dua (Jones Road).
Other kampungs within the mukim are Kampung Herriot, Kampung Awak, Kampung Siam and Kampung Masjid Lama. However, most of the kampungs made way to development.
Kelawai was named after the akar kelawai or akar dedawai tree (Myxopyrum nervosum) and the original name was Tanjong Kelawai. It was primarily a fishing village in the past.
NOTES:
Alexander Hamilton. 1920. 'The Boria' Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 82 September, 139-44.
Syed Imran Syed Ahmad. 2014. 'Name originated from a tree', The Star Online. 8 January. https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2014/01/08/name-originated-from-a-tree/ (Accessed 21 August 2019)
