Where does “belah ketupat” come from?

belah ketupat (Indonesian) comes from English belah, from Proto-Austronesian *bəlaq — part of something split.

belah ketupat (Indonesian): a parallelogram having all sides of equal length; rhombus

Definitions

  1. a parallelogram having all sides of equal length; rhombus

Ancestry of “belah ketupat”, step by step

belah ketupat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English belah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishbelahbeefwood
2Proto-Austronesian*bəlaqpart of something split

via Indonesian ketupat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianketupatketupat
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *bəlaq →Every word from English belah →