kerbau
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Malay kerbau. Doublet of carabao.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kerbau (plural kerbaus)
- (Malaysia, Brunei) A water buffalo.
- Synonym: carabao (Philippines)
- You can still see the kerbau plowing the paddy fields in Kedah.
Indonesian
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kər(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”), from Proto-Austroasiatic [Term?].[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kərˈbau̯/ [kərˈbau̯]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -au̯
- Syllabification: ker‧bau
Noun
[edit]kêrbau (plural kerbau-kerbau)
- water buffalo (large ungulate)
- Synonym: benuang
- (figurative) stupe, stupid person
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kerbau”, 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
Malay
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayic *kər(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”).[1][2][3] Cognate with Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy, “water buffalo”), Halang kơpùa, Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ), Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Tagalog kalabaw.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (schwa-variety, /a/-variety) IPA(key): /ˈkə(r)baw/ [ˈkə(r).bau̯]
- (Literary Standard) IPA(key): /kərˈbaw/ [kərˈbau̯]
- Rhymes: -au̯
- Hyphenation: ker‧bau
Noun
[edit]kerbau (Jawi spelling کرباو, plural kerbau-kerbau or kerbau2)
- water buffalo (large ungulate)
- Synonym: benuang
- (figurative) stupe, stupid person
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bodoh
Derived terms
[edit]Affixations
Compounds
Idioms
- seekor kerbau membawa lumpur, semuanya terpalit (“one person’s bad behavior ruins the reputation of the entire group”)
- seperti kerbau dicucuk hidung (“someone who is easily manipulated, follows orders blindly, or has no backbone”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Central Bikol: karabaw
- → Dutch: karbouw
- → English: kerbau
- > Indonesian: kerbau (inherited)
- → Maguindanao: karabaw
- → Waray-Waray: karabaw
- → Tausug: kābaw
References
[edit]- ^ Mahdi, Waruno (1994), “Some Austronesian Maverick Protoforms with Culture-Historical Implications: I”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 33, number 1, page 168
- ^ Mahdi, Waruno (2009), “Some obscure Austroasiatic borrowings in Indonesian and Old Malay”, in 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Aussois, France, 22–25 June 2009
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “buffalo: water buffalo, carabao”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Further reading
[edit]- "kerbau" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
(also see "kerbau" at PRPM first version)
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