kebaya

• kabaya, kabayah, kebayah

From Malay kebaya, from Arabic قَبَايَة (qabāya), colloquial form of قَبَاء (qabāʔ, “tunic, gown”).

kebaya (plural kebayas)

1. A traditional blouse worn by women in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kebaya.

• kebaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “kebaya”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

From Malay kebaya, from Arabic قَبَايَة (qabāya), colloquial form of قَبَاء (qabāʔ, “tunic, gown”).

• IPA^(key): [kəˈbaja]
• Hyphenation: kê‧ba‧ya

kêbaya (first-person possessive kebayaku, second-person possessive kebayamu, third-person possessive kebayanya)

1. kebaya: a traditional blouse worn by women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand.

• “kebaya” 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.

From Arabic قَبَايَة (qabāya), colloquial form of قَبَاء (qabāʔ, “tunic, gown”).

• Rhymes: -a

kebaya (informal 1st possessive kebayaku, 2nd possessive kebayamu, 3rd possessive kebayanya)

1. kebaya: a traditional blouse worn by women in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand.

• Indonesian: kêbaya
• → English: kebaya
• → Chinese: 可巴雅 (kěbāyǎ)

• “kebaya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.