Surabaya
English
Translations
city in Indonesia
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Javanese ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ (surabaya), a compound word of ꦱꦸꦫ (sura, “white shark”) + ꦧꦪ (baya, “crocodile”), from Old Javanese sura, asura (“god, deity”) + bhaya (“danger, calamity”), from Sanskrit असुर (asura) + भय (bhaya).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suraˈbaja/
- Hyphenation: Su‧ra‧ba‧ya
- Rhymes: -ja, -a
Further reading
- “Surabaya” 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.
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