bausuku
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Javanese ꦧꦲꦸꦱꦸꦏꦸ (bausuku, “village worker”, literally “many foot, many leg”). Reanalysed as bahu (“many”) + suku (“foot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bausuku (first-person possessive bausukuku, second-person possessive bausukumu, third-person possessive bausukunya)
- (dialect, Java) forced labour.
- Synonyms: pekerja rodi, pekerja wajib, tenaga
Further reading
[edit]- “bausuku” 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.