kepala

From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).

• IPA^(key): /kə.pa.la/

kepala

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

• kepala rumah
• kepalai
• sekepala

From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”).

• IPA^(key): /kə.pa.laʔ/

kepala

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)
2. (figurative) leader, chief, head

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.

• IPA^(key): [kəˈpala]
• Hyphenation: kê‧pa‧la
• Rhymes: -la, -a

kepala (plural kepala-kepala, first-person possessive kepalaku, second-person possessive kepalamu, third-person possessive kepalanya)

1. (anatomy) head: the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
2. (figurative) leader, chief, head

   Kepala suku ― Tribal chief

   Kepala sekolah ― Head teacher (lit. "head of school")

   Synonyms: ketua, pemimpin

3. (computing) head: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

• “kepala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”). displaced native word hulu.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kəpalə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kəpala/
• Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

kĕpala (Jawi spelling کڤالا‎, plural kepala-kepala, informal 1st possessive kepalaku, 2nd possessive kepalamu, 3rd possessive kepalanya)

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

• hulu

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

kepala

1. head