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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)
- specifically an East and Central Javanese bullock whip, bullwhip or buffalo whip. In British English known as a "snake whip".
- any whip, namely:
- bullwhip
- signal whip
- snake whip
- a cat, cat o' nine tails
- a crop or horse whip/ riding whip: a cambuk kuda
- a flogger
- 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
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References
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
- 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
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