badak air
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of badak (“rhinoceros”) + air (“water”), inherited from Malay badak air. Probably related to the idea of Hebrew בהמות (behemót, “behemoth”) which suggested by some modern scholar as loanword of an unattested word
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(*pꜣ-jḥ-mw, “hippopotamus”, literally “the ox of the water”) and the later Coptic descendants ⲡⲉϩⲉⲙⲟⲟⲩ (pehemoou) via Old Javanese wadak (“wild buffalo”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
badak air (plural badak-badak air, first-person possessive badak airku, second-person possessive badak airmu, third-person possessive badak airnya)
- (zoology) hippopotamus
- Synonym: kuda nil
Further reading edit
- “badak air” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From badak (“rhinoceros”) + air (“water”).
Noun edit
badak air (Jawi spelling بادق اءير, plural badak-badak air, informal 1st possessive badak airku, 2nd possessive badak airmu, 3rd possessive badak airnya)
Further reading edit
- “badak air” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.