Surabaya

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Surabaya

Proper noun[edit]

Surabaya

The capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia

Translations[edit]

city in Indonesia

Acehnese: Surabaya
Arabic: سُورَابَايَا f (sūrābāyā)
Armenian: Սուրաբայա (Surabaya)
Azerbaijani: Surabaya
Balinese: Surabaya
Belarusian: Сурабая (Surabaja)
Bengali: সুরাবায়া (śurabaẏa)
Bulgarian: Сурабая (Surabaja)
Burmese: ဆူရာဘာယား (hcurabhaya:)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 泗水 (si³ seoi²)

Mandarin: 泗水 (zh) (Sìshuǐ), 蘇臘巴亞／苏腊巴亚 (Sūlàbāyà)
Czech: Surabaja
Danish: Surabaya
Dutch: Surabaya
Estonian: Surabaya
Finnish: Surabaya
French: Surabaya (fr)
Georgian: სურაბაია (surabaia)
German: Surabaya
Gorontalo: Surabaya
Greek: Σουραμπάγια (Sourampágia)
Hebrew: סורבאיה
Hindi: सुराबया (surābyā)
Hungarian: Surabaya (hu)
Indonesian: Surabaya
Italian: Surabaya
Japanese: スラバヤ (Surabaya)
Javanese: Surabaya
Korean: 수라바야 (Surabaya)
Latvian: Surabaja
Lithuanian: Surabaja
Madurese: Sorbhâjâ
Malay: Surabaya
Malayalam: സുരബായ (surabāya)
Marathi: सुराबाया (surābāyā)
Minangkabau: Surobayo
Persian: سورابایا (surâbâyâ)
Polish: Surabaja (pl)
Portuguese: Surabaya f, Surabaia f
Romanian: Surabaya
Russian: Сураба́я f (Surabája)
Serbo-Croatian: Surabaya, Сурабаја
Spanish: Surabaya
Sundanese: Surabaya
Swedish: Surabaya
Tagalog: Surabaya
Tamil: சுராபாயா (curāpāyā)
Thai: สุราบายา (sù-raa-baa-yaa)
Turkish: Surabaya
Urdu: سورابایا (sorābāyā)

Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Surabaya

Etymology[edit]

From Javanese ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ (surabaya), a compound word of ꦱꦸꦫ (sura, “white shark”) +‎ ꦧꦪ (baya, “crocodile”), from Old Javanese sura, asura (“god, deity”) +‎ bhaya (“danger, calamity”), from Sanskrit असुर (asura) +‎ भय (bhaya).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /suraˈbaja/
Hyphenation: Su‧ra‧ba‧ya
Rhymes: -ja, -a

Proper noun[edit]

Surabaya

Surabaya (the capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia)

Alternative forms[edit]

Soerabaja (pre-1947)
Surabaja (1947-1967)

Further reading[edit]

“Surabaya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Surabaia

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Indonesian Surabaya.

Proper noun[edit]

Surabaya f

Surabaya (the capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia)

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