kerbau

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kerbau; see there fore more.

Noun

kerbau (plural kerbau-kerbau, first-person possessive kerbauku, second-person possessive kerbaumu, third-person possessive kerbaunya)

  1. water buffalo (large ungulate)

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from East Austroasiatic[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kə(r)bau̯/
  • Rhymes: -ə(r)bau̯, -bau̯, -au̯

Noun

kerbau (Jawi spelling کرباو‎, plural kerbau-kerbau, informal first-person possessive kerbauku, informal second-person possessive kerbaumu, third-person possessive kerbaunya)

  1. water buffalo (large ungulate)

Synonyms

References
  1. Mahdi, Waruno. (1994), “Some Austronesian Maverick Protoforms with Culture-Historical Implications: I”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 33, issue 1), page 168
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