Where does “kuala” come from?

kuala (Indonesian) comes from Malay Kuala — confluence point where two rivers or streams meet.

kuala (Indonesian): mouth, river mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water)

Definitions

  1. mouth, river mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water)

Ancestry of “kuala”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MalayKualaconfluence point where two rivers or streams meet
Every word from Malay Kuala →