gajah

Borrowed from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

gajah

1. elephant (mammal)

Borrowed from Sanskrit गज (gaja) (compare Malay gajah).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.d͡ʒah/

gajah

1. elephant

• gadjah (1947-1972)

From Malay gajah, from Classical Malay gajah (“elephant”), from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡad͡ʒah/, [ˈɡa.d͡ʒah]
• Hyphenation: ga‧jah

gajah (first-person possessive gajahku, second-person possessive gajahmu, third-person possessive gajahnya)

1. elephant (mammal)
2. (chess) bishop
3. (figurative) big-sized objects

• liman

• “gajah” 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.

gajah

1. Romanization of ꦒꦗꦃ

Borrowed from Malay gajah, from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡad͡ʒah/, [ˈɡa.d͡ʒah]

gajah (Jawi spelling ݢاجه)

1. elephant (mammal)

Borrowed from Sanskrit गज (gaja). Partially displaced liman.

• IPA^(key): /ɡad͡ʒah/
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʒah, -d͡ʒah, -ah

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gajah (Jawi spelling ݢاجه, plural gajah-gajah, informal 1st possessive gajahku, 2nd possessive gajahmu, 3rd possessive gajahnya)

1. elephant (mammal)
2. (chess) bishop

   Gajah mempunyai kulit yang tebal.

   Elephants have thick skin.

gajah

1. giant (used in certain nouns)

   Antonym: padi

• Indonesian: gajah
• → Bikol Central: gadyâ
• → Cebuano: gadyâ
• → Maguindanao: gajah
• → Tagalog: gadya
• → Tausug: gadja

• Traces of Contact in the Lexicon‎, Brill, 2023, →ISBN, page 39
• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 65-6
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ݣاجه gadjah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 98
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ݢاجه gajah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 557
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “gajah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 318

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

gajah

1. Romanization of ᮌᮏᮂ