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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay keskul, from Classical Persian کشکول (kaškūl, “beggar, bowl”), کجکول (kajkūl) a compound of کج (kaj, “crooked”) + کول (kōl, “pond, reservoir”).[1]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: kês‧kul
Noun
kêskul (first-person possessive keskulku, second-person possessive keskulmu, third-person possessive keskulnya)
- (archaic) the beggar's bowl.
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
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