Chinese edit

phonetic
trad. (鵝蠻律)
simp. (鹅蛮律)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Indonesian gubernur and Malay gabenor.

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

鵝蠻律

  1. (historical, colonial Southeast Asia) governor

References edit

  • Salmon, Claudine (2009) “Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges”, in Archipel[1], volume 78, number 1, pages 181–208