different between cambuk vs sjambok

Indonesian

Etymology

From Persian ????? (?âbok, “horsewhip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??amb?k]
• Hyphenation: cam?buk

Noun

cambuk (plural cambuk-cambuk, first-person possessive cambukku, second-person possessive cambukmu, third-person possessive cambuknya)

1. specifically an East and Central Javanese bullock whip, bullwhip or buffalo whip. In British English known as a "snake whip".
2. a generic term for any whip, namely:
   1. bullwhip
   2. signal whip
   3. snake whip
   4. a cat: old UK English word for a punishment whip with multiple tails: (the cat o' nine tails)
   5. a crop or horse whip/ riding whip: a cambuk kuda
   6. a flogger
   7. a cemeti (cambuk perang) (Javanese mounted knight's war whip)

Usage notes

Old Dutch spelling: "tjamboek" hence known in English as the erroneous transliterations 'sjambok, sjamboek and jambok

Affixed terms

See also

• cemeti
• pecut
• sjambok

References

• Edward Henry Knight. 1884. Knight's new mechanical dictionary: A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering (1876-1880.). Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884. 960 pages
• Sutanto Atmosumarto: 2004. A learner's comprehensive dictionary of Indonesian. Atma Stanton, 2004. ?ISBN. ?ISBN. 652 pages. Page: 81

Further reading

• “cambuk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

English

Alternative forms

• (noun): sambock, sambok, shambock, shambok, shambuck, sjambock
• (verb): shambock, shambok, sjambock, sjamboke

Etymology

From Afrikaans sjambok, from Dutch sjambok, from Javanese cambuk, and as borrowed in Malay: modern Indonesian and Malay, ultimately from Persian ????? (?âbok). Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration tscamboek. The term was imported by VOC officials, Dutch merchants, the Maardijkers (Maluku (Moluccan) freemen and burghers), and Inlanders (Javanese and other modern Indonesian slaves and political exiles expelled to Dutch South Africa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmb?k/

Noun

sjambok (plural sjamboks)

1. (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, chapter II, pp. 25-6,

     He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack.

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, page 113:

     Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok.

See also

• knout
• quirt
• whip
• cambuk

Verb

sjambok (third-person singular simple present sjamboks, present participle sjambokking, simple past and past participle sjambokked)

1. (transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.

References

• 1989-1990, South African Department of Information (Apartheid era), South Africa 1989-90: official yearbook of the Republic of South Africa, volume 15 (1989; ?ISBN and ?ISBN). Page 74: "bobotie, kiaal, sjambok, sosatie from Malay".
• 1983, Robert Ross, Cape of Torments: slavery and resistance in South Africa. International library of anthropology (Routledge, 1983; ?ISBN and ?ISBN)
• 1978, Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English
• 1971, Roy Lewis, Yvonne Foy, Painting Africa white: the human side of British colonialism (Universe Books, 1971, ?ISBN and ?ISBN)
• 1883, JKW Quarles van Ufford, Koloniale kroniek - De Economist (Springer, [1], [2])

Anagrams

• Kambojs, jamboks

Dutch

Alternative forms

• sambok, tjambok

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese cambuk or Malay cambuk, ultimately from Persian ????? (?âbok).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?b?k/
• Hyphenation: sjam?bok
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

sjambok f (plural sjambokken, diminutive sjambokje n)

1. A sjambok, a long heavy whip.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sjambok
  • English: sjambok