budak

budak

1. flower

• budac (pre-1950 spelling)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بوداق (budaq), from Proto-Turkic *būtaq, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *būta-. Compare Turkish budak, Azerbaijani and Salar budaq.

budak (definite accusative budaa, plural budaklar)

1. (botany) branch, bough, limb

   Synonym: dal

2. bough, knot

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “budac”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 18
• Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “budak”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 105
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “budak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 36
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “будак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 94
• András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

From Malay budak (“child”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗik, *ɗiik, *ɗiək (“slave”). The sense of slave is reinforced by Javanese ꦧꦸꦝꦏ꧀ (budhak, “slave”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbudaʔ/ [ˈbu.daʔ], /ˈbudak/ [ˈbu.dak̚]

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• Rhymes: -udaʔ, -udak
• Syllabification: bu‧dak

budak (plural budak-budak or para budak)

1. slave

   Synonyms: antek, hamba

2. (obsolete, mainly found in dialectal use) child

   Synonym: anak

• The word is part of partial false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay budak.
• The sense "child", which is the meaning in Standard Malay can be found in regional speech such as the Indonesian of Riau Malay speech. However, the sense of child is obsolete in standard Indonesian.

• “budak” 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.

budak

1. mythological horse having the head of a human; a beautiful woman with long hair and beautiful wings

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗik, *ɗiik, *ɗiək (“slave”).

• IPA^(key): /budak/
• Rhymes: -udak, -dak, -ak
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [budäʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ

budak (Jawi spelling بودق, plural budak-budak)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Riau, Sumatra) young person; child

   Synonyms: anak, kanak-kanak, bocah

2. (archaic, mainly in Indonesia) slave

   Synonyms: hamba, abdi

   • 1849, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, Hikayat Abdullah, page 250:

     Adapun barang siapa yang hendak membeli budak-budak itu, maka dibukakannya tubuhnya dan berbagai-bagai lakunya, dengan tiada menaruh kasihan barang sedikit jua pun.

     He whosoever wants to purchase the slaves take [clothing] off their bodies and do many things upon them with not even a little mercy.

The word is part of partial false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian budak.

• memperbudakkan

• Indonesian: budak

• Kamus Bahasa Indonesia-Melayu Riau, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1997, →ISBN, page 13
• Kamus Melayu Sumatera Utara-Indonesia, Balai Bahasa Sumatera Utara Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Republik Indonesia, 2018, →ISBN, page 140
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “بودق boedak”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek‎^[1], John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 63
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بودق budak”, in A Malay-English dictionary‎^[2], Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 127
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “budak”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)‎^[3], volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 158

• “budak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗik, *ɗiik, *ɗiək (“slave”).

budak

1. young person; child

   Synonyms: anak, putra (male) / putri (female)

   • c. 16th century, Carita Parahiyangan:

     "Rababu leumpang! Ku siya bwatkeun budak éta ka Rahiyangtang Mandiminyak. Anteurkeun patemuan siya Sang Salahtwah!"

     Go, Rababu! Bring that child with you to Rahiyangtang Mandiminyak! Send him your bastard, Sang Salahtwah (the mistake)!

• Sundanese: budak

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوداق (budak).

• IPA^(key): /bûdaːk/
• Hyphenation: bu‧dak

bȕdāk m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̏да̄к)

1. pickax, mattock

• “budak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Old Sundanese budak, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗik, *ɗiik, *ɗiək (“slave”). Word and sense related to Malay budak.

budak (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮓᮊ᮪, plural barudak)

1. young person; child; kid

   Synonym: murangkalih

   Kunaon éta budak teu indit ka sakola?

   Why didn't that kid go to school?

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوداق (budak, “shoot in a tree; gnarl”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بوداق (budaq), from Proto-Turkic *būtak, a development from *būta- (“to cut branches, prune”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani budaq, Bashkir ботаҡ (botaq), Kazakh бұтақ (būtaq), Kyrgyz бутак (butak), Southern Altai будак (budak), Turkmen pudak and Uzbek butoq

• Hyphenation: bu‧dak

budak (definite accusative budağı, plural budaklar)

1. (botany) shoot, the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant
2. gnarl, a knot in the wood or a protuberance with twisted grain on a tree
3. (Konya) a cylindrical stone used to smooth the tops of roofs or to fill cracks after rain

• “budak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “budak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “budak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “budak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982