kepala
Brunei Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kə.pa.la/
Noun
kepala
- (anatomy) head (part of the body)
Derived terms
- kepala rumah
- kepalai
- sekepala
Iban
Etymology
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kə.pa.laʔ/
Noun
kepala
- (anatomy) head (part of the body)
- (figurative) leader, chief, head
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay kepala, from Classical Malay: کڤالا (kepala), from Pali kapāla, from Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kapā́las, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kapā́las, from Proto-Indo-European *káp-ōl (“head, bowl”).
- Sense of leader and chief is a semantic loan from Dutch hoofd.
- The computing sense is a semantic loan from English head.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kəˈpala]
- Hyphenation: kê‧pa‧la
- Rhymes: -la, -a
Noun
kepala (plural kepala-kepala, first-person possessive kepalaku, second-person possessive kepalamu, third-person possessive kepalanya)
- (anatomy) head: the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
- (figurative) leader, chief, head
- Kepala suku ― Tribal chief
- Kepala sekolah ― Head teacher (lit. "head of school")
- Synonyms: ketua, pemimpin
- (computing) head: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
Derived terms
- berkepala
- kepala-kepalaan
- mengepalai
- mengepalakan
- kepala air
- kepala angin
- kepala bagian
- kepala bahu
- kepala batu
- kepala berat
- kepala busung
- kepala daerah
- kepala desa
- kepala dingin
- kepala dua
- kepala gudang
- kepala guntur
- kepala kain
- kepala kampung
- kepala karangan
- kepala keluarga
- kepala kereta api
- kepala kodi
- kepala lakon
- kepala lorong
- kepala negara
- kepala negeri
- kepala not
- kepala pasukan
- kepala payung
- kepala pulau
- kepala putik
- kepala raja
- kepala sari
- kepala sarung
- kepala sekolah
- kepala stasiun
- kepala stik
- kepala suku
- kepala surat
- kepala susu
- kepala tahun
- kepala tirai
- kepala tongkat
- kepala udang
- kepala waris
- kepala wilayah
- kepala zakar
Further reading
- “kepala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”). displaced native word hulu.
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /kəpalə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /kəpala/
- Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə
Noun
kĕpala (Jawi spelling کڤالا, plural kepala-kepala, informal 1st possessive kepalaku, 2nd possessive kepalamu, 3rd possessive kepalanya)
- (anatomy) head (part of the body)
Synonyms
- hulu
Further reading
- “kepala” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maranao
Noun
kepala
- head