kumpul kebo
Indonesian
Etymology
From koempoel gebouw, earlier spelling of compound kumpul + Dutch gebouw (“building”). The latter element then phono-semantically altered, based on Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo, “water buffalo”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kumpul kəbo/
Noun
- (colloquial) cohabitation
- Synonym: kohabitasi
References
- “kumpul kebo”, 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