sobat

English

Noun

sobat (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sohbat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay sobat, from Classical Malay sobat, from Arabic صَحَابَة (ṣaḥāba, “friend”). Doublet of sahabat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: so‧bat

Noun

sobat (plural sobat-sobat, first-person possessive sobatku, second-person possessive sobatmu, third-person possessive sobatnya)

1. friend, buddy, comrade

   Synonyms: bendu, dongan, handai, handai tolan, kamerad, kanca, kanti, karib, kawan, kenalan, kolega, kontak, mitra, perepat, rafik, sahabat, saki, sejawat, sekutu, sohib, teman, tolan

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

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

Malay

Noun

sobat (Jawi spelling سوبت, plural sobat-sobat, informal 1st possessive sobatku, 2nd possessive sobatmu, 3rd possessive sobatnya)

1. friend, buddy, comrade

Further reading

• “sobat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay sobat, from Arabic صَحَابَة (ṣaḥāba, “friend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sobat (Jawi سوبت)

1. friend
2. companion

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian суббота (subbota).

Noun

sobat

1. Saturday

Inflection

Coordinate terms

• (days of the week) pühäpäiv, ezmärg, tožnarg, koumanz'päiv, nellänz'päiv, pätnič, sobat ^{(Category: vep:Days of the week)}

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “суббота”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika