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kebon.

a garden in the Dutch East Indies

5 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/kəˈbɔn/
  1. a garden in the Dutch East Indies

    Netherlands · historical · masculine · no-diminutive
  2. a native Indonesian gardener in the service of colonial Europeans

    Netherlands · historical · masculine · no-diminutive
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (kebon). In the sense “gardener” a shortening from tukang kebun.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.