bumiputera

Malay

Etymology

bumi (“land, soil”) +‎ putera (“son, prince”); equivalent to Sanskrit भूमिपुत्र (bhūmiputra, “son of the land”).

Noun

bumiputĕra (plural bumiputera-bumiputera, informal first-person possessive bumiputeraku, informal second-person possessive bumiputeramu, third-person possessive bumiputeranya)

  1. bumiputra, the native people of Malaysia or Brunei
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