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dapur.

kitchen (room)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈdapur/Standard-Indonesian[ˈda.pʊr]Standard-Indonesian
  1. kitchen (room)

  2. hearth, the lowest part of a metallurgical furnace

  3. stove

  4. furnace: an industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics

  5. kiln

  6. soil-filled can for the place of the stove

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay dapur, from Proto-Malayic *dapur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dapuʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dapuʀ (“hearth, external part”). Cognate with Tagalog dapog, Samoan magalafu (“fireplace, furnace”).

noun/ˈdapur/Standard-Indonesian[ˈda.pʊr]Standard-Indonesian
  1. ancient village society in Ancient Java

  2. the shape of a keris blade is marked by chips on the keris blade

  3. a place to put the rudder of a boat

  4. determination of the name of tosan aji based on its physical form (of keris)

Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese ḍapur (“unit of rural society; cluster, pile”). Cognate of Javanese ꦝꦥꦸꦂ (dhapur, “shape, form, design; clump, cluster”).

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