ꦧꦼꦱ꧀ꦏꦥ꧀

Javanese

Etymology

Unknown, probably borrowed from Dutch beschaafd (“cultured; courteous”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəs.kap/
  • Rhymes: -kap
  • Hyphenation: bes‧kap

Noun

ꦧꦼꦱ꧀ꦏꦥ꧀ (beskap)

  1. (fashion) Javanese formal men shirt: thick shirts, not folded collars, usually dark in color, but almost always plain.

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: beskap

Further reading

  • The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “beskap”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.