Keju is from Portuguese quedjo.
Tjoetjoe and chuchu, is how you'd spell cucu in Indonesian and Malay until the spelling was standardised. Tj is pronounced 'c', and Oe is pronounced 'u'. Jakarta was spelled Djakarta, and Sukarno was spelled Soekarno. 'Y' sometimes pronounced as 'j', which explains there are varied spellings of Yogyakarta.
Kicap is a Malay word. The English word is ketchup. Disputably kicap is derived from Tamil.
Godown is a place to store goods. It derived from a Malay word, gedung.
This one's famous. Compound has its roots from the Malay word kampung.
Minggu is from Portuguese Domingo. It means Sunday.
Sabtu is from the Portuguese Sabato.
Cuti is a Hindi word.
Menceceh means to speak pointlessly in Malay. Ceceh, interestingly, is another word for male genitalia. (see Kamus Dewan).
Filipinos are Malays. The differences are they speak Tagalog, and the major religion is Roman Catholic.
Sakit also means sick in Tagalog.
Bendera is Portuguese bendeira.
The word amuck is used to especially describe a person who is dangerously out of control. It derived from the Malay word amuk.
Bamboo is a Malay word.
Pangolin or ant-eater, derives from the word Tenggiling.
Cawan is Mandarin char-wan.
Kattil and Kappal found their way from Tamil into Malay and became what we know as kapal and katil.
Bomba and mentega are Portuguese bombeiro and menteiga.
Misai, is Tamil.
Driving lisence, or lesen memandu, is called ribewis in Indonesia. The word came from Dutch rijbewijs.
Malay has an extensive number of borrowed words from Arabic, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and (duh) English. It is rumored that only some words are originally Malay, not Indonesian or other Malay dialects. One of them is rumah.
Malay belongs to a language group called Austronesian. Languages in this group include Javanese, Tagalog, Minangkabau, Batak, Banjar, Sundanese and Balinese.
At least 175 000 000 people in the world speak Malay, be it mother tongue or not.
At least 18 000 000 people speak Malaysian Malay.
At least 76 000 000 people speak Javanese and 22 000 000 people speak Tagalog.
It is said that the first person to circumnavigate the world is a Malay, a person known as Panglima Awang. It is believed that he was a slave captured during the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, and served Ferdinand Magellan. He was known as Espinosa or Enrique, or Henry the Black. Ferdinand Magellan didn't finish the voyage, for he was killed during a battle in Cebu. It is rumored that it was Enrique who completed the voyage. See Henry the Black in Wikipedia.
Thirty years ago, there was no Geografi. It was Ilmu Alam.
Melayu means 'to migrate' or 'to fled'. It refers to a high mobility of Malays across the Archipelago.
The skin color of the Malays are neither black, white, red or yellow. (kinda unique, i guess). One anthropologist described the Malay skin color as brown color, from a clear magohany to the darkest clove or chestnut brown.
The Malay Peninsula is an area from the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand to the tip of Tanjung Piai down in Johor (which eventually, connected by a causeway to Singapore). Peninsular Malaysia refers to the states that is in the Malaysian part of the peninsula, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Southern Thailand and Singapore.
Found in a 1950s printed workbook (my aunty's). "Singapore is a big city in Malaya".
Muslim Malays live in large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Hindu Malays have a large number in Bali. Roman Catholic Malays are found in a large number in the Philippines and East Timor. Before converting to Islam, most Malays in the region practice Buddhism, Hinduism, shamanism and animism.
Bumiputra is not simply Malays. It also describes other indigenous ethnic groups. The word is from Sanskrit Bhumiputra, literally Princes of the Earth, or translated as sons of the soil.
Once upon a time Malay was a lingua franca in many ports in Southeast Asia.
Malay can be transliterated in many types of scripts. Among them are the Roman and Arabic alphabets (namely Rumi and Jawi).
Dutch ananas is borrowed and becomes nanas.
unta is Urdu unth.
Manusia is Sanskrit mannussya.
Zirafah and haiwan are Arabic zarafah and hayawan (among others).
Caddy is a Malay word.
...and..among other facts.
:)
Tjoetjoe and chuchu, is how you'd spell cucu in Indonesian and Malay until the spelling was standardised. Tj is pronounced 'c', and Oe is pronounced 'u'. Jakarta was spelled Djakarta, and Sukarno was spelled Soekarno. 'Y' sometimes pronounced as 'j', which explains there are varied spellings of Yogyakarta.
Kicap is a Malay word. The English word is ketchup. Disputably kicap is derived from Tamil.
Godown is a place to store goods. It derived from a Malay word, gedung.
This one's famous. Compound has its roots from the Malay word kampung.
Minggu is from Portuguese Domingo. It means Sunday.
Sabtu is from the Portuguese Sabato.
Cuti is a Hindi word.
Menceceh means to speak pointlessly in Malay. Ceceh, interestingly, is another word for male genitalia. (see Kamus Dewan).
Filipinos are Malays. The differences are they speak Tagalog, and the major religion is Roman Catholic.
Sakit also means sick in Tagalog.
Bendera is Portuguese bendeira.
The word amuck is used to especially describe a person who is dangerously out of control. It derived from the Malay word amuk.
Bamboo is a Malay word.
Pangolin or ant-eater, derives from the word Tenggiling.
Cawan is Mandarin char-wan.
Kattil and Kappal found their way from Tamil into Malay and became what we know as kapal and katil.
Bomba and mentega are Portuguese bombeiro and menteiga.
Misai, is Tamil.
Driving lisence, or lesen memandu, is called ribewis in Indonesia. The word came from Dutch rijbewijs.
Malay has an extensive number of borrowed words from Arabic, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and (duh) English. It is rumored that only some words are originally Malay, not Indonesian or other Malay dialects. One of them is rumah.
Malay belongs to a language group called Austronesian. Languages in this group include Javanese, Tagalog, Minangkabau, Batak, Banjar, Sundanese and Balinese.
At least 175 000 000 people in the world speak Malay, be it mother tongue or not.
At least 18 000 000 people speak Malaysian Malay.
At least 76 000 000 people speak Javanese and 22 000 000 people speak Tagalog.
It is said that the first person to circumnavigate the world is a Malay, a person known as Panglima Awang. It is believed that he was a slave captured during the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, and served Ferdinand Magellan. He was known as Espinosa or Enrique, or Henry the Black. Ferdinand Magellan didn't finish the voyage, for he was killed during a battle in Cebu. It is rumored that it was Enrique who completed the voyage. See Henry the Black in Wikipedia.
Thirty years ago, there was no Geografi. It was Ilmu Alam.
Melayu means 'to migrate' or 'to fled'. It refers to a high mobility of Malays across the Archipelago.
The skin color of the Malays are neither black, white, red or yellow. (kinda unique, i guess). One anthropologist described the Malay skin color as brown color, from a clear magohany to the darkest clove or chestnut brown.
The Malay Peninsula is an area from the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand to the tip of Tanjung Piai down in Johor (which eventually, connected by a causeway to Singapore). Peninsular Malaysia refers to the states that is in the Malaysian part of the peninsula, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Southern Thailand and Singapore.
Found in a 1950s printed workbook (my aunty's). "Singapore is a big city in Malaya".
Muslim Malays live in large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Hindu Malays have a large number in Bali. Roman Catholic Malays are found in a large number in the Philippines and East Timor. Before converting to Islam, most Malays in the region practice Buddhism, Hinduism, shamanism and animism.
Bumiputra is not simply Malays. It also describes other indigenous ethnic groups. The word is from Sanskrit Bhumiputra, literally Princes of the Earth, or translated as sons of the soil.
Once upon a time Malay was a lingua franca in many ports in Southeast Asia.
Malay can be transliterated in many types of scripts. Among them are the Roman and Arabic alphabets (namely Rumi and Jawi).
Dutch ananas is borrowed and becomes nanas.
unta is Urdu unth.
Manusia is Sanskrit mannussya.
Zirafah and haiwan are Arabic zarafah and hayawan (among others).
Caddy is a Malay word.
...and..among other facts.
:)
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lol! telefon? polis? sebenarnya... is the malay language actually a language....?
we dont have our own wordings!
Panglima Awang was a very high ranking official in the Malacca sultanate. At the same time he was also a Portuguese collaborator. He had never been a slave throughout his life except for being the subject of the Malacca Sultan to whom Panglima Awang had served loyally. Panglima Awang changed his allegiance to Alfonso de Albuqueque and thus become another King of Portugal's subject on 16 July 1511. Panglima Awang fought on Portugal's side and eventually helped Alfonso de Albuquerque capture Malacca in late August 1511.
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