bocah

From Javanese bocah, from Old Javanese boñcah.

bocah

1. (Ora) child; kid

From Malay bocah borrowing Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦕꦃ (bocah), from Old Javanese boñcah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot͡ʃah]
• Hyphenation: bo‧cah

bocah (plural bocah-bocah)

1. child; kid

bocah

1. immature, childish

• “bocah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

bocah

1. romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦕꦃ

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦕꦃ (bocah), from Old Javanese boñcah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot͡ʃah]

bocah (Jawi spelling بوچه, plural bocah-bocah)

1. child; kid

   Synonyms: anak, budak

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “بوچه bochah”, in A Malay-English dictionary‎^[1], Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 127
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “bochah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)‎^[2], volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 147

• “bocah”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017