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SaveType Settlement
Usage Indonesian, Javanese, Acehnese, Balinese, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
Scripts ꦯꦸꦫꦧꦪ(Javanese) سورابايا(Arabic) Սուրաբայա(Armenian) Сурабая(Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek Cyrillic) スラバヤ(Japanese Katakana) 수라바야(Korean Hangul) سورابایا(Persian, Urdu) ซูราบายา(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. soo-ra-BA-ya(Indonesian, Spanish) SOO-RA-BA-YA(French, Japanese) SOO-RA-PA-YA(Korean) soo-ra-ba-YA(Thai) [key · IPA]
Other Forms FormsSurabaja, Soerbaja, Shurabaya
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Added 2/20/2020 by highexpectasians
Edited 7/21/2020 by highexpectasians [revision history]
Meaning & History
From Javanese ꦯꦸꦫꦧꦪ (shurabaya), derived from ꦯꦸꦫ (shura) meaning "white shark" and ꦧꦪ (baya) meaning "crocodile". The name comes from 12th-century Javanese monarch Jayabaya, who foresaw a fight between a white shark and crocodile (which might have been referring to a Mongol invasion of Java in the late 13th century). This is the name of a city in Indonesia.