kenya

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese [Term?], from Sanskrit कन्या (kanyā, “girl, maiden”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəˈɲa/ [kəˈɲa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ke‧nya

kenya (plural kenya-kenya)

1. girl, maiden

   Synonym: gadis

2. woman

   Synonym: perempuan

• “kenya”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016