交拉吧

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (交拉吧)		交	拉	吧
alternative forms		旮旯巴 Teochew 噶喇吧 Hokkien 咬𠺕吧 Hokkien

Etymology

From Sunda Kelapa, the old port of Jakarta. Ultimately from Malay kelapa (“coconut”).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Ka-lâ-pa / Ka-la-pa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ga¹ la¹ ba¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, dated in Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-lâ-pa
    • Tâi-lô: Ka-lâ-pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kala'paf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² la²⁴⁻²² pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ la²³⁻³³ pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ la²⁴⁻¹¹ pa⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-la-pa
    • Tâi-lô: Ka-la-pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kala'paf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² la⁴⁴⁻²² pa⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ga¹ la¹ ba¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ka la pa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka³³⁻²³ la³³⁻²³ pa³³/

Proper noun

交拉吧

1. (Hokkien, Teochew, obsolete) Java (an island in Indonesia)
2. (Hokkien, obsolete) Batavia (the capital city of the Dutch East Indies); modern Jakarta
3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien, dated) Indonesia

Synonyms

• (Java): 爪哇 (Zhǎowā)
• (Batavia): 吧城 (Bāchéng), 巴達維亞／巴达维亚 (Bādáwéiyà), 八打威 (Bādǎwēi)
• (Indonesia):

Dialectal synonyms of 印度尼西亞 (“Indonesia”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	印尼, 印度尼西亞
Cantonese	Hong Kong	印尼, 印度尼西亞
Southern Min	Xiamen	印度尼西亞
	Quanzhou	印度尼西亞
	Zhangzhou	印度尼西亞, 交拉吧 dated
	Penang (Hokkien)	印尼

Noun

交拉吧

1. (Zhangzhou Hokkien, Teochew) faraway place

Derived terms

• 呂宋噶喇吧 / 吕宋噶喇吧

 

References

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “ka”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 187; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 187
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “pa”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 353; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 353
• Duffus, William (1883) “Java”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 157
• Macgowan, John (1883) “Batavia”, in English and Chinese Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect (overall work in English and Hokkien), Amoy, China: A. A. Marcal, page 32
• Macgowan, John (1883) “Java”, in English and Chinese Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect (overall work in English and Hokkien), Amoy, China: A. A. Marcal, page 257