buruh

From Malay buruh, from Old Malay vuruh (“workmen”), from, Betawi buruh (“paid man”), Old Javanese buruh (“paid man”), wuruh, uruh, wĕrĕh (“young man”), ultimately probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruh, *ruuh (“young girl, virgin”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈburuh/ [ˈbu.rʊh]
• Rhymes: -uruh
• Syllabification: bu‧ruh

buruh (plural buruh-buruh)

1. laborer (US); labourer (UK); worker

• “buruh” 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.

Unknown, probably related to wuruh, uruh (“young man”) and Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruh, *ruuh (“young girl, virgin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ruh/
• Hyphenation: buruh

buruh

1. paid man

• → Old Malay: vuruh (“workmen”)
  • Malay: buruh
    • Indonesian: buruh (“laborer, labourer, worker”)

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