cambuk

Indonesian

Etymology

From Borrowed from Persian چابک (čâbok, “horsewhip”). via Malay cambuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃam.buk/
• Hyphenation: cam‧buk

Noun

cambuk (plural cambuk-cambuk, first-person possessive cambukku, second-person possessive cambukmu, third-person possessive cambuknya)

1. specifically an East and Central Javanese bullock whip, bullwhip or buffalo whip. In British English known as a "snake whip".
2. any whip, namely:
   1. bullwhip
   2. signal whip
   3. snake whip
   4. a cat, cat o' nine tails
   5. a crop or horse whip/ riding whip: a cambuk kuda
   6. a flogger
   7. a cemeti (cambuk perang) (Javanese mounted knight's war whip)

Usage notes

Old Dutch spelling: "tjamboek" hence known in English as the erroneous transliterations 'sjambok, sjamboek and jambok

Affixed terms

• mencambuk
• mencambuki
• pencambuk
• pencambukan
• tercambuk

 

See also

• cemeti
• pecut
• sjambok

References

• 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. →ISBN. 652 pages. Page: 81

Further reading

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