Indonesian

Noun

cambuk

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)

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

See also

• cemeti
• mencambuki (verb)
• 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: 0954682807. ISBN: 9780954682804. 652 pages. Page: 81