Surabaya

English

Proper noun

Surabaya

1. The capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia

Translations

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

Etymology

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

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

Proper noun

Surabaya

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

Alternative forms

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

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Surabaia

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian Surabaya.

Proper noun

Surabaya f

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