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Indonesian
Etymology
From Javanese ꦧꦲꦸꦱꦸꦏꦸ (bausuku, “village worker”, literally “many foot, many leg”). Reanalysed as bahu (“many”) + suku (“foot”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bau‧su‧ku
Noun
bausuku (first-person possessive bausukuku, second-person possessive bausukumu, third-person possessive bausukunya)
- (dialect, Java) forced labour.
- Synonyms: pekerja rodi, pekerja wajib, tenaga
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