kebaya

• kabaya, kabayah, kebayah

From Malay kebaya.

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.

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

kêbaya (plural kebaya-kebaya)

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.

Likely borrowed from Portuguese cabaia, from Sinhalese කබාය (kabāya), singular form of කබා (kabā, “coats”), from Persian قب (“long garment, cloak”), from Arabic قَبَاء (qabāʔ, “garment with long sleeves”).^[1]

• Rhymes: -a

kebaya

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

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

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