dapur.
kitchen (room)
Meaning & usage
kitchen (room)
hearth, the lowest part of a metallurgical furnace
stove
furnace: an industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics
kiln
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”).
ancient village society in Ancient Java
the shape of a keris blade is marked by chips on the keris blade
a place to put the rudder of a boat
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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