badak

English

Etymology

Indonesian badak

Noun

badak (plural badaks)

1. (Indonesia) A rhinoceros.
   • 1863, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 31, page 164:

     It is said to resemble […] the Badak or Rhinoceros.

   • 1945, Special Publication of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, page 387:

     Early Portuguese and Dutch writers refer to the "badaks" to be found inland, […]

   • 1996, E. M. Beekman, Troubled Pleasures, page 193:

     […] rhino is magic, hence there are very few left. In 1847, no badaks were alive east of Mount Slamat […]

See also

• badak berendam

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• warak (dialectal, rare)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay badak, from Javanese ꦧꦝꦏ꧀ (badhak) (compare Javanese ꦮꦫꦏ꧀ (warak, “rhinoceros”)), from Old Javanese warak (“rhinoceros”) (compare Old Javanese wadak (“wild buffalo”)), probably from Proto-Austroasiatic (compare to Proto-Bahnaric *-rok (“cow, ox”) and Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruuk (“ox”))

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbadak/ [ˈba.dak̚]

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• Rhymes: -adak
• Syllabification: ba‧dak

Noun

badak (plural badak-badak)

1. (zoology) rhinoceros (herbivorous pachyderm with one or two horns)

Derived terms

• badak air (“hippopotamus”)
• badak babi (“tapir”)
• badak gajah (“Javan rhinoceros”)
• badak jawa (“Javan rhinoceros”)
• badak kerbau (“Sumatran rhinoceros”)
• badak raya (“Javan rhinoceros”)
• badak sumatra (“Sumatran rhinoceros”)
• badak sumbu (“Javan rhinoceros”)
• badak tampung (“tapir”)

Further reading

• “badak”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbadak]

Noun

badak m inan (diminutive badack)

1. thistle

Declension

Declension of badak

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	badak	badaka	badake
Genitive	badaka	badakowu	badakow
Dative	badakoju	badakoma	badakam
Accusative	badak	badaka	badake
Instrumental	badakom	badakoma	badakami
Locative	badaku	badakoma	badakach

Synonyms

• wóset

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “badak”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “badak”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbadak/ [ˈba.daʔ]
• Rhymes: -adaʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧dak

Noun

badak (Jawi spelling بادق, plural badak-badak or badak²)

1. rhinoceros

Descendants

• > Indonesian: badak (inherited)
• → Portuguese: bada, abada
  • → English: abada
  • → Italian: bada
  • → Italian: abada
  • → Spanish: abada

Further reading

• "badak" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Maranao

Noun

badak

1. jackfruit

Remun

Verb

badak

1. to know

Sundanese

Noun

badak (Sundanese spelling ᮘᮓᮊ᮪)

1. rhinoceros

Tboli

Noun

badak

1. jackfruit

Tetum

Adjective

badak

1. short

Tiruray

Noun

badak

1. jackfruit