kepala
Brunei Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kepala
Derived terms edit
Iban edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).
Pronunciation edit
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kepala
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay kepala, from Classical Malay: کڤالا (kepala), from Pali kapāla, from Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kapā́las, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kapā́las, from Proto-Indo-European *káp-ōl (“head, bowl”). Doublet of kopra.
- Sense of leader and chief is a semantic loan from Dutch hoofd via Malay.
- The computing sense is a semantic loan from English head.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kepala (plural kepala-kepala, first-person possessive kepalaku, second-person possessive kepalamu, third-person possessive kepalanya)
- (anatomy) head: the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
- (figurative) leader, chief, head
- (computing) head: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kepala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
kepala
- Romanization of ꦏꦼꦥꦭ
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”). Main anatomy sense mostly displaced native word hulu except in court language.
- Sense of leader and chief is a semantic loan from Dutch hoofd, compare with penghulu.
- The computing sense is a semantic loan from English head.
Pronunciation edit
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /kəpalə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /kəpala/
- Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə
- Rhymes: -a
Noun edit
kĕpala (Jawi spelling کڤالا, plural kepala-kepala, informal 1st possessive kepalaku, 2nd possessive kepalamu, 3rd possessive kepalanya)
- (anatomy) head (part of the body)
- top part or layer of something
- Synonym: hulu
- kepala kain: front broad stripe found in some sarong patterns
- kepala susu: cream of milk
- kepala santan: coconut cream
- kepala surat: letterhead
- kepala berita: headline
- kepala lutut: kneecap, patella
- (figurative) leader, chief, head
- source
- (computing) head: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
Derived terms edit
- besar kepala
- kepala air
- kepala angin
- kepala bahu
- kepala batu
- kepala berat
- kepala berita
- kepala busung
- kepala daerah
- kepala desa
- kepala dingin
- kepala dua
- kepala guntur
- kepala kain
- kepala kampung
- kepala karangan
- kepala keluarga
- kepala kereta api
- kepala kodi
- kepala lakon
- kepala lorong
- kepala lutut
- kepala pasukan
- kepala payung
- kepala pemerintahan
- kepala pulau
- kepala putik
- kepala raja
- kepala santan
- kepala sari
- kepala sarung
- kepala suku
- kepala surat
- kepala susu
- kepala tahun
- kepala tirai
- kepala tongkat
- kepala udang
- kepala zakar
- ringan kepala
- sakit kepala
References edit
- Edi Sedyawati, Ellya Iswati, Kusparyati Boedhijono, Dyah Widjajanti D. (1994) Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, →ISBN, page 96
- Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “کڤال kapala”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek[1], John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 83
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “کڤال kĕpala”, in A Malay-English dictionary[2], Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 521
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “kĕpala”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)[3], volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 561
Further reading edit
- “kepala” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maranao edit
Noun edit
kepala