songkok

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English

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Etymology

From Malay songkok.

Noun

songkok (plural songkoks)

  1. An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302:
      He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
    • 2008 January 28, Marilyn Berger, “Suharto Dies at 86; Indonesian Dictator Brought Order and Bloodshed”, in New York Times:
      Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.

Indonesian

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Sukarno wearing a songkok.

Etymology

From Malay songkok.

Noun

songkok (first-person possessive songkokku, second-person possessive songkokmu, third-person possessive songkoknya)

  1. songkok
    Synonyms: peci, kopiah

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Malay

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Tunku Abdul Rahman wearing a songkok.

Etymology

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Noun

songkok (Jawi spelling سوڠکوق, plural songkok-songkok, informal 1st possessive songkokku, 2nd possessive songkokmu, 3rd possessive songkoknya)

  1. songkok
    Synonym: peci

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