kudu.
flower bud
Meaning & usage
flower bud
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Old Javanese kuḍu (“bud”).
red paint for coloring batik cloth, made from the roots or bark of the mengkudu tree
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay کودو (kudu).
mandatory
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦢꦸ (kudu, “must”), from Old Javanese kudu, kĕdö (“set on; at all costs, by any means; unremittingly, insistently, obstinately, unavoidably”).
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