bumiputra
noun
bumiputra is a noun meaning “a citizen of Malaysia having indigenous Malayan or Borneo ancestry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-M-I-P-U-T-R-A and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bumiputra is bumiputras.
What does bumiputra mean?
noun
- 1
a citizen of Malaysia having indigenous Malayan or Borneo ancestry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bumiputra?
Bumiputra has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of bumiputra
- bumiputras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bumiputra?
Bumiputra appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does bumiputra come from?
From Sanskrit भूमि (bhūmi) + पुत्र (putra); via Malay bumiputera (“son of the soil”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).