arkib

• arkaif (nonstandard, rare)
• arsip (Indonesia)

There are several theories as to where this term originated:

• Borrowed from English archive. Compare lesen (from licence), motosikal (from motorcycle) and Palestin (from Palestine) where the English /ai̯/ vowel was adapted as Malay /e/ or /i/ and rizab (from reserve) where English word-final /v/ was adapted as Malay /b/.
• Borrowed from Portuguese arquivo (but with betacism in pronunciation, compare Galician arquivo), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon).

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈa(r)keb/ [ˈa(r).kep̚]
  • Rhymes: -a(r)keb, -eb
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈarkib/ [ˈar.kip̚]
  • Rhymes: -arkib, -ib
• Hyphenation: ar‧kib

arkib (Jawi spelling ارکيب, plural arkib-arkib or arkib²)

1. archive (place for storing earlier material)

arkib (active mengarkib, third-person passive diarkib)

1. (computing) to archive (transfer data to other storage medium)

• "arkib" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017