Where does “bedah mayat” come from?

bedah mayat (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian mayat, from Malay mayat, from Arabic ميت, from Arabic مَيِّت — dead.

bedah mayat (Indonesian): autopsy a dissection performed on a cadaver

Definitions

  1. autopsy a dissection performed on a cadaver

Ancestry of “bedah mayat”, step by step

bedah mayat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian mayat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmayatdead body; corpse; cadaver
2Malaymayatcorpse
3Arabicميتdead; active participle of مَاتَ
4Arabicمَيِّتdead

via Malay bedah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaybedahsurgery; surgical
2Javaneseꦧꦼꦝꦃbroken through
Every word from Arabic مَيِّت →Every word from Arabic ميت →Every word from Malay mayat →