cambuk
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Indonesian [edit]
Noun [edit]
cambuk
- specifically an East and Central Javanese bullock, bull or buffalo whip. In British English known as a "snake whip".
- a generic term for any whip namely :
- bullwhip
- signal whip
- snake whip
- a cat: old UK English word for a punishment whip with multiple tails: (the cat o' nine tails)
- a crop or horse whip/ riding whip: a cambuk kuda
- a flog
- a cemeti (cambuk perang) (Javanese mounted knight's war whip)
Old Dutch spelling: "tjamboek" hence known in English as the erroneous transliterations 'sjambok, sjamboek and jambok
See also [edit]
- cemeti
- mencambuki (verb)
- pecut
- sjambok
References [edit]
- Edward Henry Knight. 1884. Knight's new mechanical dictionary: A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering (1876-1880.). Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884. 960 pages
- Sutanto Atmosumarto: 2004. A learner's comprehensive dictionary of Indonesian. Atma Stanton, 2004. ISBN: 0954682807. ISBN: 9780954682804. 652 pages. Page: 81
