kumbah

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦃ (kumbah), from Old Javanese kumbah. Cognate of Sundanese ᮊᮥᮙ᮪ᮘᮂ (kumbah).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkumbah/ [ˈkum.bah]
• Rhymes: -umbah
• Syllabification: kum‧bah

Verb

kumbah

1. (dialectal) to wash

   Synonyms: basuh, cuci

Conjugation

Conjugation of kumbah (meng-, intransitive)
Root	kumbah
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Emphatic / Jussive
Active	mengumbah	terkumbah	dikumbah	kumbah	kumbahlah
Locative	mengumbahi	terkumbahi	dikumbahi	kumbahi	kumbahilah
Causative / Applicative1	mengumbahkan	terkumbahkan	dikumbahkan	kumbahkan	kumbahkanlah
	Causative
Active	memperkumbah	terperkumbah	diperkumbah	perkumbah	perkumbahlah
Locative	memperkumbahi	terperkumbahi	diperkumbahi	perkumbahi	perkumbahilah
Causative / Applicative1	memperkumbahkan	terperkumbahkan	diperkumbahkan	perkumbahkan	perkumbahkanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• mengumbah

 

Further reading

• “kumbah” 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.

Javanese

Romanization

kumbah

1. Romanization of ꦏꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦃ

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed umbah +‎ ka-.

Verb

kumbah

1. to wash (clothes)

Derived terms

• aṅumbah
• kakumbah
• kinumbah

 

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦏꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦃ (kumbah) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: kumbah
  • → Malay: کومبه (kumbah)

Further reading

• "kumbah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sundanese

Romanization

kumbah

1. Romanization of ᮊᮥᮙ᮪ᮘᮂ