kancah

Malay

Alternative forms

• kanchah

Etymology

Possibly an innovative form of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kawah (compare the word formation with embacang). Doublet of kawah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan.t͡ʃah/
• Rhymes: -ancah, -cah, -ah

Noun

kancah (plural kancah-kancah, informal 1st possessive kancahku, 2nd possessive kancahmu, 3rd possessive kancahnya)

1. a cauldron

Further reading

• “kancah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.