songkok
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsongkok (plural songkoks)
- An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302:
- He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
- 2008 January 28, Marilyn Berger, “Suharto Dies at 86; Indonesian Dictator Brought Order and Bloodshed”, in New York Times[1]:
- Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editNoun
editsongkok (first-person possessive songkokku, second-person possessive songkokmu, third-person possessive songkoknya)
Further reading
edit- “songkok” 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.
Malay
editEtymology
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Noun
editsongkok (Jawi spelling سوڠکوق, plural songkok-songkok, informal 1st possessive songkokku, 2nd possessive songkokmu, 3rd possessive songkoknya)
Further reading
edit- “songkok” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.