gabah

From Javanese ꦒꦧꦃ (gabah), from Old Javanese gabah, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaʔ (“paddy”). Compare Temiar baa (“rice plants, husked rice”), Semai ba (“rice”), Proto-Khasian *kba (“paddy rice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabah/
• Rhymes: -bah, -ah, -ah
• Hyphenation: ga‧bah

gabah (plural gabah-gabah)

1. (agriculture) unhusked rice

• “gabah” 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.

gabah

1. romanization of ꦒꦧꦃ

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaʔ (“paddy”). Compare Temiar baa (“rice plants, husked rice”), Semai ba (“rice”), Proto-Khasian *kba (“paddy rice”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡabah/
• Hyphenation: ga‧bah

gabah

1. (agriculture) unhusked rice.

• Javanese: ꦒꦧꦃ (gabah)
  • → Indonesian: gabah (“unhusked rice”)

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